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Politics of Ecosystem Services
Dimensions of Political Ecology: Conference on Nature/Society
February 28-March 3, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Session organizer: Eric Nost, University of Kentucky
For this session we seek papers that flesh out how scientists, eco-entrepreneurs, regulators, and others create, mobilize, and contest the ecosystem services concept in environmental governance and social movements. Web of Science indices, reports from Rio+20, and the creation of the new Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) all suggest that ecologists, economists, conservationists, and policy-makers employ an ecosystem services approach more and more to describe benefits environments provide to human well-being. To speak about nature as a set of goods and services which flow to society may indeed be gaining hegemony, but the ways practitioners frame, value, and finance ecosystem service management can differ significantly, and often from place to place. We are especially interested in papers that cross-fertilize the politics of measuring and marketing nature as a service with other political domains (e.g. with austerity or development politics). Our goals are to think through what ecosystem services management can tell us about (environmental) governance more generally and the degree to which the politics of ecosystem services represent anything new under the sun.
Topics might include:
Ecosystem services assessment and modeling
The use of code and software in ecosystem services practice
Payments and markets for ecosystem services
Ecosystem services institutions and organizations
Habitat and species banking
Carbon cap and trade schemes (e.g. California AB32)
Financialization of nature
Ecosystem services and militarization, enclosures
Urban, cultural ecosystem services
Ecosystem services and socio-environmental metabolism
Ecosystem services and environmental justice
Nature/society philosophy
Scales and spaces of ecosystem service governance
Valuation and natural capital accounting
Ecosystem services and neoliberal natures
Histories of the ecosystem services concept and approach
Methods in critical ecosystem services research
Ecosystem services and law
Conferences, reports, protocols, and the making of ecosystem service science, policy, and markets (e.g. Rio+20)
If you are interested in participating, please send a paper title and an abstract of no more than 250 words by December 1, 2012 to [log in to unmask] All conference participants must also register for the conference and submit their abstract on the conference website (www.politicalecology.org)
http://www.politicalecology.org/2012/10/politics-of-ecosystem-serivces.html
Eric Nost
University of Kentucky
Department of Geography
Political Ecology Working Group
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