Taherzadeh, O and Howley, P orcid.org/0000-0002-3385-629X (2018) No net loss of what, for whom?: stakeholder perspectives to Biodiversity Offsetting in England. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 20 (4). pp. 1807-1830. ISSN 1387-585X
Abstract
Market-based instruments (MBIs) have emerged as a popular approach to balance development and conservation objectives. However, their ability to accomplish this is often beset by poor implementation in practice. This is testament to a widening gap between the rate of policy development and implementation of MBIs and the maturity of research and evaluation on their design, and impact on affected stakeholders. Within this context, this paper examines multi-stakeholder perspectives to the adoption of Biodiversity Offsetting in England, an instrument designed to enable biodiversity losses in one place to be compensated through conservation improvements elsewhere. Analysis reveals issues associated with social and ecological compensation of biodiversity loss. Findings suggest that there is a need for a broader consideration of issues surrounding distributive justice, access to nature and the status of ownership over sites of common heritage when accounting for biodiversity loss and its compensation. This message is salient to both the study context as well as the burgeoning international practice of Biodiversity Offsetting.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
Keywords: | Biodiversity offsetting; No Net Loss; Social justice; England; Conservation |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Economics Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 21 Mar 2019 15:17 |
Last Modified: | 21 Mar 2019 15:17 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s10668-017-9967-z |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:143943 |
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