A major contribution to understand how the environmental crisis is viewed globally and responded to by policy

This book highlights the manner in which key aspects in policy discourse—commodity, pricing, ownership, and regulation—have borrowed economic and trade principles to address the environmental crisis and to what effect. The book addresses a fundamental issue in environment: if nature is no longer available as a limitless resource, how has the policy discourse on the environmental crisis come to view it, value it, and live with it?

Analysing policy instruments across sectors that respond to local ecological conflicts and challenges, the book offers a conceptual understanding of how natural elements are transformed into mobile, tradable commodities through the use of market-based instruments.

Introduction: Green and Pink
SECTION I. EXAMINING ‘NATURE’ IN BUSINESS
Jeremy Walker Bringing Liquidity to Life: Markets for Ecosystem Services and the New Political Economy of Extinction Shalini Bhutani Claiming Benefits, Making Commodities Himanshu Burte The Abstract Nature of Building Vinuta Gopal Coal Accounting: The Story of Fuel Kept Cheap
SECTION II. DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE OF NATURE
Shripad Dharmadhikary Value as a Justification in Water Resource Development Simone Lovera The Effectiveness and Equity of Payments for Reducing Forest Loss Soumitra Ghosh Selling Nature: Narratives of Coercion, Resistance, and Ecology Sanjay Kabir Bavikatte and Daniel F Robinson Putting Peoplehood at the Centre of the Green Economy Index