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Business interests and the environmental crisis

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi Sage Publications 2016Description: xxxviii, 244 pISBN:
  • 9789351508601
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.927 B8
Summary: 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. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/business-interests-and-the-environmental-crises/book251176
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Table of Contents:

Section I. Examining ‘nature’ in business
1. Bringing Liquidity to Life: Markets for Ecosystem Services and the New Political Economy of Extinction
2. Claiming Benefits, Making Commodities
3. The Abstract Nature of Building
4. Coal Accounting: The Story of Fuel Kept Cheap

Section II. Democratic governance of nature
5. Value as a Justification in Water Resource Development
6. The Effectiveness and Equity of Payments for Reducing Forest Loss
7. Selling Nature: Narratives of Coercion, Resistance, and Ecology
8. Putting Peoplehood at the Centre of the Green Economy

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.

https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/business-interests-and-the-environmental-crises/book251176

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