The limits of monetization in valuing the environment: : A reply to Gsottbauer et al.

• Autores: Giorgos Kallis, Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Christos Zografos
• Localización: Ecological Economics, ISSN-e 1873-6106, Nº. 112, 2015, págs. 170-173
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • We welcome the attention of Gsottbauer, Logar, and van den Bergh (thereinafter GLV) to our contribution. However, their critique misrepresents what our article was trying to do, so it merits a response.

    Our article offered a framework for assessing the conditions under which one may, or may not engage with processes that value nature in money terms. GLV argue that, first, we confuse monetary valuation methods with pricing policies, and that most of what we have to say may be relevant for the latter but not for the former. Second, they argue that the assessment criteria we propose are either obvious or unconvincing.

    Third, they contend that the examples we give to illustrate the applicability of our criteria are not representative. And finally, they suggest that our concern with whether a particular monetary valuation study or pricing policy contributes to enclosures and neo-liberalism is ideological an