The Financialisation of Nature as Crisis Strategy

Brand, Ulrich; Wissen, Markus

doi:10.20446/jep-2414-3197-30-2-16

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“…Nevertheless, the nexus as well as its governance remain too often "buzz words" (Stein et al 2014) and questions about the implementation as well as the distinct geography of nexus 6 initiatives remain open or grounded by neoliberal and technocratic politics (Williams et al 2014, p. 15) promoting a "financialisation of nature" (Brand and Wissen 2014). Other critiques claim that the nexus is neither complete nor new (Muller 2015, p. 686) and fails to meet the needs of many key actors, mainly in developing countries (ibid., p. 689).…”

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Turning wastewater into energy: challenges of reconfiguring regional infrastructures in the Berlin–Brandenburg region

2016

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Issues of connectivity between different infrastructure sectors have received surprisingly little attention in recent research. Despite huge interest in issues of sectoral integration surrounding the water-energy nexus, researchers have rarely considered what this might mean for the coupling of infrastructure systems for water/wastewater and energy services. Consequently, the implications of greater connectivity for the governance and socio-spatial constitution of infrastructures are largely unexplored. This paper addresses this research gap with a case study of an attempt to use treated wastewater to produce biomass for energy on degraded land in the Berlin-Brandenburg region of Germany. It takes water reuse for energy crop production as an exemplar of work at the water-energy nexus in order to explore the institutional, spatial and physical dimensions involved in connecting two infrastructure systems to this end. It argues that cross-sectoral integration reaches far beyond issues of technological compatibility, revealing often hidden but crucial differences in the institutional and spatial configuration of energy and wastewater systems. On the basis of a comparative analysis of the institutional arrangements of the region's wastewater and energy systems together with an empirical study of initiatives to use treated wastewater to grow energy crops the paper draws conclusions, firstly, on the potential and limitations of this particular exemplar and, secondly, on the broader implications of the case for understanding institutional challenges of cross-sectoral connectivity on the one hand and prospects for reconfiguring infrastructural relations between cities and rural areas on the other.

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Turning wastewater into energy: challenges of reconfiguring regional infrastructures in the Berlin–Brandenburg region

2016

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“…For instance, it should first of all include the economic value of repair (replacement) once one natural eco-system and its elements are contaminated or damaged. Thus, 1 As for the accurate starting-point of New Era, a common understanding is the 18 th national congress of CPC in November 2012, at which Xi Jinping was elected as the top leader of CPC, though this term was first used in the working report to 19 th national congress of CPC in October 2017.…”

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“…Namely, it is a green-left ideological discourse on development of the governing political party (CPC), an environmental political-social theory insisting on a comprehensive transformation, or re-construction, of the contemporary society, and an organic way of thinking and philosophy with a strong link to the Chinese and/or Western Classical tradition. Arguably, there are two inseparable levels or dimensions with the eco-civilization construction of China in the New Era after the 18 th national congress of Communist Party of China (CPC) which was held in 2012 1 . On the one hand, governments at all levels as well as the whole society should firmly establish and consciously carry out The socialist outlook on ecocivilization expounded clearly at the 19 th national congress of CPC in 2017 (Xi, 2017a(Xi, , 2012) 2 , or to put it differently, leading or regulating the process of eco-civilization construction in China with a new socialist politics (Huan, 2014).…”

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China’s Environmental Protection in the New Era from the Perspective of Eco-civilization Construction

Qingzhi¹

2020

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Under a particular context of China’ eco-civilization construction in the New Era after the 18th national congress of CPC, an interesting question is that the discourse of socialist eco-civilization and its practice can to what an extent reshape or change the relationship among eco-capital, green technology and public participation in achieving a better environmental governance. A field-study in Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province, shows clearly that there are both great hope for a radical reconstruction and multitudinous difficulties and challenges in front of the pioneering Green enterprises and the pilot areas of eco-civilization construction.

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“…Concerning the multi-scalar character of many dynamics, neo-extractivism shows that the mode of development in particular Latin American countries is linked to the consolidation of resource-intensive modes of production and living in the global North, the economic rise of countries with "emerging markets," and the resulting growing global demand for resources. Moreover, high prices in the raw-materials sector as the basis of neo-extractivism are not only due to any rise in demand, but also to the discovery of their suitability as a field of investment for overaccumulated capital, which might be called the "financialisation" of nature [23]. This means that not only the analysis of patterns of resource use and the processes and structures linked to them need to consider socio-economic and political dynamics elsewhere.…”

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Challenges for Social-Ecological Transformations: Contributions from Social and Political Ecology

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Transformation has become a major topic of sustainability research. This opens up new perspectives, but at the same time, runs the danger to convert into a new critical orthodoxy which narrows down analytical perspectives. Most research is committed towards a political-strategic approach towards transformation. This focus, however, clashes with ongoing transformation processes towards un-sustainability. The paper presents cornerstones of an integrative approach to social-ecological transformations (SET), which builds upon empirical work and conceptual considerations from Social Ecology and Political Ecology. We argue that a critical understanding of the challenges for societal transformations can be advanced by focusing on the interdependencies between societies and the natural environment. This starting point provides a more realistic understanding of the societal and biophysical constraints of sustainability transformations by emphasising the crisis-driven and contested character of the appropriation of nature and the power relations involved. Moreover, it pursues a transdisciplinary mode of research, decisive for adequately understanding any strategy for transformations towards sustainability. Such a conceptual approach of SET is supposed to better integrate the analytical, normative and political-strategic dimension of transformation research. We use the examples of global land use patterns, neo-extractivism in Latin America and the global water crisis to clarify our approach.

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The Financialisation of Nature as Crisis Strategy

Cited by 18 publications

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Turning wastewater into energy: challenges of reconfiguring regional infrastructures in the Berlin–Brandenburg region

Turning wastewater into energy: challenges of reconfiguring regional infrastructures in the Berlin–Brandenburg region

China’s Environmental Protection in the New Era from the Perspective of Eco-civilization Construction

Challenges for Social-Ecological Transformations: Contributions from Social and Political Ecology

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