The Justices and Injustices of Ecosystem Services

ISBN-13: 9780415825399 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 224 str.

Thomas Sikor

Opis

Humankind benefits from a multitude of resources and processes that are supplied by natural ecosystems, and collectively these benefits are known as ecosystem services. Interest in this topic has grown exponentially over the last decade, as economists have tried to quantify these benefits to justify ecosystem management interventions. Yet, as this book demonstrates, the implications for justice and injustice have rarely been explored and works on environmental justice are only now addressing the importance of ecosystem services.

The authors establish important new middle ground in arguments between conservationists and critics of market-based interventions such as Payment for Ecosystem Services. Neither can ecosystem management be separated from justice concerns, as conservationists like to believe, nor is it in fundamental opposition to justice, as critics like to put it. Management interventions tend to create justices and injustices simultaneously. The book develops this novel interpretation of justice in ecosystem management through analyses of prominent governance interventions and the conceptual underpinnings of the ecosystem services framework. Key examples described are river basin management and REDD for forest ecosystems.

The analyses demonstrate that interventions create opportunities for enhancing social justice, yet also reveal critical design features that cause presumably technical interventions to generate injustices.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Linking Ecosystem Services with Environmental Justice  Part 1: Ecosystem Services-based Governance Interventions  2. Justice Implications of Conditionality in Payments for Ecosystem Services: a Case Study from Uganda  3. REDD+: Justice Effects of Technical Design  4. Just Conservation? On the Fairness of Sharing Benefits  5. Basin Justice: Using Social Justice to address Gaps in River Basin Management  Part 2: The Ecosystem Services Framework  6. Environmentalisms, Justices and the Limits of Ecosystem Services Frameworks  7. Health, Environment and the Ecosystem Services Framework: A Justice Critique  8. A Justice Critique of Environmental Valuation for Ecosystem Governance  9. The Justices and Injustices of Ecosystem Services

O autorze

Thomas Sikor is Professor of Environment and Development at the University of East Anglia, UK.