Highlights•Biodiversity and ecosystem services are perceived differently by different
stakeholders.•Land management decisions require negotiating trade-offs among values and …

In this paper, we undertake an extensive review of the neoliberal conservation literature with
the aim to explore and substantiate the principal ways in which conservation is …

This essay introduces and invites contributions to a new Journal of Peasant Studies Forum
on 'climate change and critical agrarian studies'. Climate change is inextricably entwined …

Climate change policies' implications for the capitalist system call for us to go beyond
efficiency-driven extractivism and further analyse the outcomes of green policies. The …

Global economic crisis and the implications of global environmental change have led
academics and policy-makers to consider how 'development'in all parts of the world should …

The study of ecosystem services enables the understanding of the services that ecosystems
provide at the landscape level by explaining the relationship between natural capital …

The concept of ecosystem services (ES) neatly encapsulates the ways in which human
society depends upon the existence and functioning of nature, but also draws power by …

This paper builds on the literature on green grabbing. It makes a fresh contribution by
bringing in aspects of green grabbing that are less visible and obvious. These are subtle …

Mainstream environmentalism and critical scholarship are abuzz with the promise and perils
(respectively) of what we call for-profit biodiversity conservation: attempts to make …

The Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation program, or REDD+,
has been the international community's first real attempt to create a global forest governance …