A review of the social impacts of neoliberal conservation: Formations, inequalities, contestations

G Holmes, CJ Cavanagh - Geoforum, 2016 - Elsevier
In recent years, perhaps the two most prominent debates in geography on issues of
biodiversity conservation have hinged upon, firstly, the positive and negative social impacts …

Reviewing 15 years of research on neoliberal conservation: Towards a decolonial, interdisciplinary, intersectional and community-engaged research agenda

E Apostolopoulou, A Chatzimentor, S Maestre-Andrés… - Geoforum, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we undertake an extensive review of the neoliberal conservation literature with
the aim to explore and substantiate the principal ways in which conservation is …

Green militarization: anti-poaching efforts and the spatial contours of Kruger National Park

E Lunstrum - Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Building from scholarship charting the complex, often ambivalent, relationship between
military activity and the environment, and the more recent critical geographical work on …

Towards a synthesized critique of neoliberal biodiversity conservation

B Büscher, S Sullivan, K Neves, J Igoe… - Capitalism nature …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of this paper is to provide a synthesized critique of neoliberal biodiversity
conservation. This, we think, is necessary for two reasons. First, most work on the …

The political ecology of ecosystem services

CA Kull, XA de Sartre, M Castro-Larrañaga - Geoforum, 2015 - Elsevier
The dominance of “ecosystem services” as a guiding concept for environmental
management–where it appears as a neutral, obvious, taken-for-granted concept–hides the …

Virtual nature, violent accumulation: The 'spectacular failure'of carbon offsetting at a Ugandan National Park

C Cavanagh, TA Benjaminsen - Geoforum, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract In East Africa, financially strained governments increasingly experiment with
voluntary, market-based carbon offset schemes for enhancing the public management of …

Problematizing REDD+ as an experiment in payments for ecosystem services

E Corbera - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper conceptualizes the REDD+ policy framework as the world's largest experiment in
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES). REDD+ promotes the commodification of …

Rethinking biodiversity: from goods and services to “living with”

E Turnhout, C Waterton, K Neves… - Conservation letters, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Since the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity, counting and mapping have
come to dominate international debates around biodiversity protection. With the emergence …

Bulldozing biodiversity: The economics of offsets and trading-in Nature

CL Spash - Biological conservation, 2015 - Elsevier
Many conservationists have become enamoured with mainstream economic concepts and
approaches, described as pragmatic replacements for appeals to ethics and direct …

Contesting the market-based nature of Mexico's national payments for ecosystem services programs: Four sites of articulation and hybridization

E Shapiro-Garza - Geoforum, 2013 - Elsevier
Mexico's national payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs pay rural landholders
for hydrological services, carbon sequestration, biodiversity conservation, and improvement …