The militarisation and marketisation of nature: an alternative lens to �climate-conflict�

• Autores: Alexander Dunlap, James Fairhead
• Localización: Geopolitics, ISSN-e 1557-3028, Vol. 19, Nº. 4, 2014, págs. 937-961
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Policies addressing climate change are driving major transformations in access to global land, forests and water as they create new �green� markets that reinforce, and attracts the financial grid and its speculators. This leads us to examine the rise of state violence and subsequent environmental policies in forests, transferring into both �fortress� and �participatory� conservation, enhancing this relationship with new environmental commodity markets. We go on to document how the new and intensifying commodification of the environment associated with climate change is manifest in conflicts linked to the UN-REDD+ programme, industrial tree plantations (ITPs), and land-use practices associated with conservation and biofuels. We trace conflicts to business practices associated with land acquisitions and mining practices which claim to address climate change and mitigate ecological crises. This paper thus grapples with systemic issues of the modern industrial economy and the mechanisms legitimising and advancing the militarisation and marketisation of nature.