This was the theme of Nature™ Inc, a conference in the Institute for Social Studies in The Hague, Netherlands. I’m still on the last session of the conference, but I wanted to share with you the results of this important discussion on the privatization and commodification of nature. In the website (link) you can download [...]
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Questioning the market panacea
Posted in climate economics on July 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Carbon trading critic censorship
Posted in carbon trading, climate economics on December 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Clive Spash is a well-known ecological economist. His resume was enough to convince Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), an Australian government agency, to hire him. But when he decided to criticize carbon trading, his work became more difficult. It all started when Spash wanted to write a report on the dangers of carbon [...]
