Ecosystem services: From eye-opening metaphor to complexity blinder

Norgaard, Richard B.

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.11.009

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“…Thus, at Rio+20 the Natural Capital Declaration was launched as a financial sector, CEO endorsed, initiative to mainstream natural capital into loans, bonds, equities and insurance, as well as accounting and reporting frameworks; internationally 44 financial institutions are signatories. This provision of financial rewards is presumed to outweigh the numerous problems associated with the use of biodiversity offsets (Spash, 2014;Sullivan, 2013) and ecosystem services (Gomez-Baggethun and Ruiz-Perez, 2011;Redford and Adams, 2009), and their orientation towards the continued expansion of economic growth, capital accumulation and financial markets (Norgaard, 2010;Spangenberg and Settele, 2010).…”

Section: A Developing Pragmatic Financial Discoursementioning

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Re-establishing an ecological discourse in the policy debate over how to value ecosystems and biodiversity

Spash

Aslaksen

2015

Journal of Environmental Management

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Re-establishing an ecological discourse in the policy debate over how to value ecosystems and biodiversity

Spash

Aslaksen

2015

Journal of Environmental Management

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“…Yet these are not the only land-related paradigms of importance. The discourse on the use of land for environmental services under the climate change regime has gained significant traction although its presence in new international rules is yet t codified it remains problematic (Norgaard 2010). We also see an unfolding struggle to cre international rights such as the right of indigenous people and peasants to land (Jones 2011;Xanthaki 2010).…”

Section: Land As a Global Governance Issuementioning

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Emergent Global Land Governance

Margulis¹

2014

Rethinking Global Land Use in an Urban Era

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Land governance is currently the focus of many new global rule-making projects, marking a sharp break with past practices that sought to exclude land as an international governance issue. Wideranging concerns about land grabbing and its exclusionary and ecological consequences have driven this, prompting states and global civil society to devise new global land-governance instruments. This chapter offers a preliminary theoretical and empirical analysis of what is conceptualized as "emergent global land governance," focusing primarily on its international governance dimensions. A review of relevant land-governance policy instruments in the fields of investment, land tenure, and forestry suggests that emergent global land governance is likely to consist of multiple, overlapping instruments with diverging normative frameworks and objectives that are not closely coordinated instead of a singular, discrete international regime.

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“…According to ecological economists, the concept of ecosystem services popularized by Daily (1997) and Costanza et al (1997) was originally supposed to be a way of communicating the idea of 'nature as a fixed stock of capital that can sustain a limited flow of ecosystem services', but which cannot sustain unlimited economic growth (Norgaard 2010). The term was used to raise awareness of how dependent humans are on healthy ecosystems, however over time it became a dominant paradigm for approaching environmental management and policy.…”

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“…The term was used to raise awareness of how dependent humans are on healthy ecosystems, however over time it became a dominant paradigm for approaching environmental management and policy. There has been an 'exponential rise in the use of the term 'ecosystem services' in academic journals' and an 'industry of professionals providing advice on ecosystem services' has flourished (Norgaard 2010).…”

Section: Ecosystem Servicesmentioning

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Environmental economics and ecological economics: the contribution of interdisciplinarity to understanding, influence and effectiveness

Beder

2011

Envir. Conserv.

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SUMMARYThis paper reviews developments in both environmental economics and ecological economics with respect to their progress towards environmental interdisciplinarity and towards providing solutions to environmental problems. The concepts, methods, theories and assumptions of each field of knowledge are reviewed and the extent to which they depart from the dominant neoclassical paradigm of economics is assessed. The contribution that interdisciplinarity has made to the success of each field is analysed in terms of understanding, influence and effectiveness and the constraints that it has imposed upon that success. Environmental economics has adopted the dominant economic neoclassical paradigm, including the power of the market to allocate environmental resources efficiently and in a socially optimal way. The solution to environmental problems is thus seen as a matter of ensuring that the environment is properly priced to reflect the relative scarcity of natural resources and assets and to ensure that environmental values are incorporated into the market. This specialized view of environmental problems is now reflected in government policy around the world including the use of extended cost benefit analyses, contingent valuations, environmental charges and emissions trading. Nevertheless, environmental problems continue to grow in severity and the solutions provided by environmental economists have proven ineffective. Thus lack of interdisciplinarity does not prevent a field of knowledge from gaining influence and dominance, however its effectiveness in terms of understanding environmental problems and solving them is impeded. Ecological economics seeks to incorporate the research of economists, ecologists, philosophers and social scientists, however its influence seems to be have been limited to areas in which it retains the standard economics framework, and this limits its effectiveness in terms of environmental solutions. Thus interdisciplinarity may increase understanding of the real world but * Correspondence: Dr Sharon Beder, University of Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia e-mail: sharonb@uow.edu.au it cannot overcome political and social barriers to translating that understanding into the widespread implementation of effective environmental measures.

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Ecosystem services: From eye-opening metaphor to complexity blinder

Cited by 825 publications

References 35 publications

Re-establishing an ecological discourse in the policy debate over how to value ecosystems and biodiversity

Re-establishing an ecological discourse in the policy debate over how to value ecosystems and biodiversity

Emergent Global Land Governance

Environmental economics and ecological economics: the contribution of interdisciplinarity to understanding, influence and effectiveness

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