Business Interests and the Environmental Crisis

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-93-5150-860-1
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

A major contribution to understand how the environmental crisis is viewed globally and responded to by policy

This book highlights the manner in which key aspects in policy discourse—commodity, pricing, ownership, and regulation—have borrowed economic and trade principles to address the environmental crisis and to what effect. The book addresses a fundamental issue in environment: if nature is no longer available as a limitless resource, how has the policy discourse on the environmental crisis come to view it, value it, and live with it?

Analysing policy instruments across sectors that respond to local ecological conflicts and challenges, the book offers a conceptual understanding of how natural elements are transformed into mobile, tradable commodities through the use of market-based instruments.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kohli, Kanchi

Menon, Manju

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction: Green and Pink - Kanchi Kohli and Manju Menon
SECTION I. EXAMINING ‘NATURE’ IN BUSINESS
Bringing Liquidity to Life: Markets for Ecosystem Services and the New Political Economy of Extinction - Jeremy Walker
Claiming Benefits, Making Commodities - Shalini Bhutani
The Abstract Nature of Building - Himanshu Burte
Coal Accounting: The Story of Fuel Kept Cheap - Vinuta Gopal
SECTION II. DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE OF NATURE
Value as a Justification in Water Resource Development - Shripad Dharmadhikary
The Effectiveness and Equity of Payments for Reducing Forest Loss - Simone Lovera
Selling Nature: Narratives of Coercion, Resistance, and Ecology - Soumitra Ghosh
Putting Peoplehood at the Centre of the Green Economy - Sanjay Kabir Bavikatte and Daniel F Robinson
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Menon, Manju
Manju Menon is Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. She has researched and written on environment, law, and development for over two decades. Her main areas of work are environmental lawmaking and implementation processes and regulatory decisions on siting of infrastructure projects. She collaborates with local, regional, and thematic networks working on decentralized resource governance and environmental compliance.

Kohli, Kanchi
Kanchi Kohli is a researcher and writer working on environment, forest, and biodiversity governance in India. Her work explores the links between law, industrialization, and environment justice. She works through the strength of different institutions and has authored several publications, individually and in teams. One of her current areas of research locates the concept of commodification of nature in real time environment policy and sustainability discourses.