Ecosystem Service Trading
Comercio de servicios ecosistémicos
first published 10 January 2017
Today's trade in ecosystem services tokens (carbon, biodiversity and so forth) has evolved as one component of capital’s troubled struggles to seek new global arrangements following the collapse of the compromises into which it was forced during the 20th century -- compromises that included welfarism, developmentalism and conventional environmental regulation. Market environmentalism can best be contested if it is understood as a part of this broader picture, argues this version of an chapter appearing in Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary (Zed and Tulika Books, 2019) edited by Alberto Acosta, Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh and others.
The chapter is available here in both English and Spanish.