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| Ecosystem Services Markets as a Neoliberal Response to Crisis |
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| Written by Larry Lohmann | |||
| Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:30 | |||
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What lies behind this trend? Some historical perspective is necessary to answer this question. Environmental services markets are not aimed merely at “solving environmental problems at the lowest cost”. More importantly, they redefine those problems in a way that creates new assets, economic sectors and property rights. As part of the neoliberal response to the economic crisis that set in during the 1970s, they function to loosen regulatory constraints on business, relax Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) requirements, and open up new profit opportunities for an increasingly dominant financial sector.
This article was published in Food Ethics, a quarterly magazine published by the Food Ethics Council, devoted to “Banking biodiversity: Valuing or devaluing nature?”, Vol. 6, Issue 2, Summer 2011.
Source : http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/resource/ecosystem-services-markets-neoliberal-response-crisis Like it? Share it!
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