{"product_id":"enterprising-nature-isbn-9781118640555","title":"Enterprising Nature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2018 James M. Blaut Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnterprising Nature\u003c\/i\u003e explores the rise of economic rationality in global biodiversity law, policy and science. To view Jessica's animation based on the book's themes please visit \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bioeconomies.org\/enterprising-nature\/\"\u003ehttp:\/\/www.bioeconomies.org\/enterprising-nature\/\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines disciplinary apparatuses, ecological-economic methodologies, computer models, business alliances, and regulatory conditions creating the conditions in which nature can be produced as \u003ci\u003eenterprising\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRelates lively, firsthand accounts of global processes at work drawn from multi-site research in Nairobi, Kenya; London, England; and Nagoya, Japan\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAssesses the scientific, technical, geopolitical, economic, and ethical challenges found in attempts to ‘enterprise nature’\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eInvestigates the implications of this ‘will to enterprise’ for environmental politics and policy\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcronyms vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeries Editors’ Preface ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Enterprising Nature 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Problem and Promise of Biodiversity Loss 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 An Ecological-Economic Tribunal for (Nonhuman) Life 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Ecosystem Services as Political-Scientific Strategy 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Protecting Profit: Biodiversity Loss as Material Risk 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Biodiversity Finance and the Search for Patient Capital 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Multilateralism vs. Biodiversity Market-Making: Battlegrounds to Unleash Capital 192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Tragedy of Liberal Environmentalism 232\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 246\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 276\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eEnterprising Nature\u003c\/i\u003e is a highly thought-provoking book! It is also a really good one, and thanks to Dempsey’s delightfully humorous prose, a pleasure to read. I highly recommend it.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulie Guthman, \u003ci\u003eThe AAG Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e (Volume 6, Issue 1)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnterprising Nature\u003c\/i\u003e also speaks to key approaches in feminist political economy — most notably a commitment to uncover the immense amount of work required to sustain those things that appear as universals and givens: nature and capitalism, for example, but also, importantly, pragmatism and utopianism.’ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJuliane Collard, The University of British Columbia, Canada\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Jessica Dempsey’s \u003ci\u003eEnterprising Nature \u003c\/i\u003eis necessary reading for understating the critical geographies of how market forces, biodiversity, environmentalism, and all kinds of so-called experts try, and often fail, to dictate the terms of conservation politics the world over. The book is fresh, robust, and offers healthy doses of both scepticism and deep insights into the battles that need to be fought.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNik Heynen, Professor of Geography, University of Georgia, USA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Dempsey’s \u003ci\u003eEnterprising Nature\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read for all conservationists. From the vantage of political ecology, Dempsey provides a sympathetic but ringing critique of the ecosystem services paradigm. Nonetheless, her fresh analysis ultimately points towards a new and hopeful pathway - by forging unexpected collaborations among scientists, social movement activists, and scholars of power dynamics, she imagines reclaiming an “abundant biodiversity”, as well as the ecosystem services it supplies.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaire Kremen, Professor in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, USA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Through arguments with which liberal environmentalists will struggle to find fault, Dempsey carefully excavates the foundations of the global biodiversity industry, and finds them rotten. This is a compassionate and intelligent book, one that helps us ask far deeper questions about humans relations with the world than the mainstream environmental movement dare broach.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRaj Patel, Research Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, USA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJESSICA DEMPSEY\u003c\/b\u003e is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jessica Dempsey's \u003ci\u003eEnterprising Nature\u003c\/i\u003e is necessary reading for understanding the critical geographies of how market forces, biodiversity, environmentalism, and all kinds of so-called experts try, and often fail, to dictate the terms of conservation politics the world over. The book is fresh, robust, and offers healthy doses of both skepticism and deep insight into the battles that need to be fought.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eNik Heynen, Professor of Geography, University of Georgia, USA\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dempsey's \u003ci\u003eEnterprising Nature\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read for all conservationists. From the vantage of political ecology, Dempsey provides a sympathetic but ringing critique of the ecosystem services paradigm. Nonetheless, her fresh analysis ultimately points toward a new and hopeful pathway – by forging unexpected collaborations among scientists, social movement activists, and scholars of power dynamics, she imagines reclaiming an 'abundant biodiversity,' as well as the ecosystem services it supplies.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eClaire Kremen, Professor in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, University of California–Berkeley, USA\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Through arguments with which liberal environmentalists will struggle to find fault, Dempsey carefully excavates the foundations of the global biodiversity industry and finds them rotten. This is a compassionate and intelligent book, one that helps us ask far deeper questions about humans' relations with the world than the mainstream environmental movement dare broach.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eRaj Patel, Research Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, USA\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnterprising Nature\u003c\/i\u003e tracks the rise of a powerful idea in global biodiversity conservation. Many scientists, bureaucrats, and environmentalists now believe that the only way to slow the decimation of nonhuman life on earth is to translate conservation into an economically rational – even profitable – set of policies and practices. \"In order to make live,\" goes the ascending mantra, \"one must make economic.\" Through multi-sited analysis, Jessica Dempsey explores the drive to produce a nature that can prove its value in economic terms, a nature that can compete in the marketplace and the cost-benefit accounting of modern governance.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan enterprising nature provide a way out of the biodiversity crisis? In answering this question, Dempsey studies past and present attempts to suture conservation with economic logics and practices. The book digs down into scientific and technical debates, bringing readers lively firsthand accounts of political and economic struggles over market-making in places such as London, New York, Nagoya, and Nairobi. Dempsey finds that the story of enterprising nature is not one of triumphant ascent but rather one of enormous challenges: technical, scientific, economic, and political. Enterprising nature seems like an \"easy fix\" to ecological degradation, tailor-made for our austerity-bound, market-governance times, but Dempsey argues it is best conceptualized as promissory, a green utopia whose realization is always \u003ci\u003ejust around the corner\u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnterprising Nature\u003c\/i\u003e provides critical and timely insight into the workings of a massive international project that's changing how we value the natural world. The book is essential reading for scholars, activists, and policymakers interested in the complex and expanding relationships among ecology, economics, and markets in contemporary international environmental politics.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Jessica Dempsey’s \u003ci\u003eEnterprising Nature \u003c\/i\u003eis necessary reading for understating the critical geographies of how market forces, biodiversity, environmentalism, and all kinds of so-called experts try, and often fail, to dictate the terms of conservation politics the world over. The book is fresh, robust, and offers healthy doses of both scepticism and deep insights into the battles that need to be fought.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNik Heynen, Professor of Geography, University of Georgia, USA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Dempsey’s \u003ci\u003eEnterprising Nature\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read for all conservationists. From the vantage of political ecology, Dempsey provides a sympathetic but ringing critique of the ecosystem services paradigm. Nonetheless, her fresh analysis ultimately points towards a new and hopeful pathway - by forging unexpected collaborations among scientists, social movement activists, and scholars of power dynamics, she imagines reclaiming an “abundant biodiversity”, as well as the ecosystem services it supplies.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaire Kremen, Professor in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, USA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Through arguments with which liberal environmentalists will struggle to find fault, Dempsey carefully excavates the foundations of the global biodiversity industry, and finds them rotten. This is a compassionate and intelligent book, one that helps us ask far deeper questions about humans relations with the world than the mainstream environmental movement dare broach.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRaj Patel, Research Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, USA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989142159589,"sku":"NP9781118640555","price":36.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118640555.jpg?v=1761782969","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/enterprising-nature-isbn-9781118640555","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}