Nature Swapped and Nature Lost

Nature Swapped and Nature Lost
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 415
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ISBN-10 : 9783030467883
ISBN-13 : 3030467880
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Book Synopsis Nature Swapped and Nature Lost by : Elia Apostolopoulou

Download or read book Nature Swapped and Nature Lost written by Elia Apostolopoulou and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book unravels the profound implications of biodiversity offsetting for nature-society relationships and its links to environmental and social inequality. Drawing on people’s resistance against its implementation in several urban and rural places across England, it explores how the production of equivalent natures, the core promise of offsetting, reframes socionatures both discursively and materially transforming places and livelihoods. The book draws on theories and concepts from human geography, political ecology, and Marxist political economy, and aims to shift the trajectory of the current literature on the interplay between offsetting, urbanization and the neoliberal reconstruction of conservation and planning policies in the era following the 2008 financial crash. By shedding light on offsetting’s contested geographies, it offers a fundamental retheorization of offsetting capable of demonstrating how offsetting, and more broadly revanchist neoliberal policies, are increasingly used to support capitalist urban growth producing socially, environmentally and geographically uneven outcomes. Nature Swapped and Nature Lost brings forward an understanding of environmental politics as class politics and sees environmental justice as inextricably linked to social justice. It effectively challenges the dystopia of offsetting’s ahistorical and asocial non-places and proposes a radically different pathway for gaining social control over the production of nature by linking struggles for the right to the city with struggles for the right to nature for all.


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