Reviewing 15 years of research on neoliberal conservation: Towards a decolonial, interdisciplinary, intersectional and community-engaged research agenda

Navigating a just and peaceful transition: Environment of Peace (Part 3)

“…UNEP and UNOHCHR argue that, as critical implementors of conservation, 'no action with potential impact on Indigenous peoples' rights is taken without consultation and obtaining the free, prior and informed consent of legitimate representatives of Indigenous peoples and should support Indigenous peoples' and other affected communities' participation in the management and ownership of efforts to combat biodiversity loss'. 68 Another shift in focus is reflected in the 2030 Agenda, which acknowledges the protection of the global ecosystem and its services, as well as biodiversity, as a cornerstone of human existence and development. In acknowledging the interconnections between SDG achievement and ecological services, conservation is accepted as a means of reducing inequality, combatting climate change and strengthening global partnerships.…”

Leadership Roles for Sustainable Development: The Case of a Malaysian Green Hotel

“…Most of the food waste was used as animal feed (for ducks, chickens, geese, turkeys, and fish in the constructed wetland pond), and the remaining food waste was composted. However, sustained leadership should have the capacity to deal with decolonial, interdisciplinary, intersectional, and community-engaged approaches and an in-depth encounter with everyday practices of resistance for environmental conservation [6]. Therefore, Frangipani has gone for several levels of trials and errors to perform the appropriate organic waste composting and use of it for environmental conservation in collaboration with researchers and universities.…”

“…Therefore, several ways of leadership, such as transformative, behavior, and/or collective leadership, etc., especially in the hospitality industry, have been observed [2][3][4][5], and these leadership practices required appropriate integration of all aspects related to the hospitality industry to promote green tourism. However, inadequate integration between quantitative methods and community-engaged social sciences and humanities approaches, inadequate engagement with social movements and grassroots activism, as well as some important gaps in the theorization of the commodification of nature are the challenges of sustainability leadership in the hospitality industry [6]. Moreover, barriers related to the novelty of Sustainable Product-Service Systems models require new attitudes to small companies, including changing mindsets from product ownership to use [7].…”

State, Labour and Emerging Natural Resource Regimes: A Case Study of Forest- Based Livelihoods in Chamba, Himachal Pradesh

“…The roots of forest conservation policy in many third-world countries lie in their colonial history and post-colonial nationalist movements that contested the global economic order and its interests (Edmunds & Wollenberg, 2001). However, the last few decades have witnessed the emergence of distinctive forms of conservation globally, termed in the academic discourse as 'green neoliberalism' or 'neoliberal conservation' (Apostolopoulou et al, 2021;Büscher et al, 2014;Naidu & Manalakos, 2010). This is in line with the understanding of neoliberalism as a system characterized by the hegemony of the free market, promoting privatization and withdrawal of the state from the social sector (Harvey, 2005).…”

“…Scholars highlight the rise in the dispossession of marginal landholders and tribal communities, upsurge in accumulation through encroachment, violence against environmental activists and the increase in conflicts over resources across the country (Das, 2015;Gopalakrishnan, 2012). At the same time, neoliberal conservation is characterized by the mainstreaming of market-based conservation mechanisms, economic valuation and commodification of nature, and the legitimization of entry of private capital in not just production but also conservation (Apostolopoulou et al, 2021;Fletcher, 2020;Smith, 2006).…”