Publications des scientifiques de l'IRD

Benabou Sarah. (2014). Making up for lost nature ? A critical review of the international development of Voluntary biodiversity offsets. In : Gallagher P. (ed.), Di Novelli-Lang D. (ed.). Nature and knowledge : contemporary ecologies of value. Environment and Society : Advances in Research, 5 (1), 103-123. ISSN 2150-6779.

Titre du document
Making up for lost nature ? A critical review of the international development of Voluntary biodiversity offsets
Année de publication
2014
Type de document
Article
Auteurs
Benabou Sarah
In
Gallagher P. (ed.), Di Novelli-Lang D. (ed.) Nature and knowledge : contemporary ecologies of value
Source
Environment and Society : Advances in Research, 2014, 5 (1), 103-123 ISSN 2150-6779
This article analyzes the international development of voluntary biodiversity off sets, a conservation instrument that permits developers to pursue their activities if conservation actions are undertaken elsewhere to compensate for the environmental impacts of their projects. Largely undertaken by extractive industries that operate in the global South where no off setting regulations exist, this tool is currently attracting growing interest from policy makers, private companies, fi nancial institutions, and conservation experts. Building upon the concept of market framing developed by Callon (1998), I explore in what contexts and through what processes this idea has gathered momentum, as well as the disturbing gap between the way it has been framed and its practical implementation. It is suggested that once immersed in the outside world, the market framing of off sets appears as a fragile result dependent upon substantial investments, which casts serious doubts about off sets' ability to reduce biodiversity loss on technical, governance, and social grounds.
Plan de classement
Sciences du milieu [021] ; Etudes, transformation, conservation du milieu naturel [082] ; Economie générale / Macroéconomie [094]
Localisation
Fonds IRD [F B010067408]
Identifiant IRD
fdi:010067408
Contact