CONCLUSION.
Year: 2014
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: This book began with the suggestion that “nature trademarked incorporated” stands as an apt metaphor for conservation in our times. The premise argued that in the neoliberal age, new frontiers of environmental conservation have become inextricably bound, defined, invested, and reinvented in terms of the interrelated dynamics of commodification, competition, financialization, and market disciplining that were less dominant in earlier management regimes. As a concept and reality, Nature ™ Inc. has set out to define and condition not only the design and substance of conservation planning and practice but also the fundamental values, beliefs, and assumptions that underlie a range of conservation frameworks and practices across different scales and, in the process, has “refurbished” the sociocultural dynamics, livelihoods, and landscapes that support the prevailing economic system (and the ecologies underpinning this system). [...]
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Life on land
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4251959822