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SUMMARY:Biodiversity offsetting\, urbanization and the right to nature - E
 lia Apostolopoulou\,University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Karen Wong
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I seek to offer a Marxist historical-geographic
 al analysis of biodiversity offsetting policy in England\, and its emergen
 ce in the context of the global economic crisis\, and government aspiratio
 ns for large-scale urban development projects. By paying attention to the 
 interplay between offsetting\, urbanization and the neoliberal reconstruct
 ion of conservation\, my aim is to shift the focus of the neoliberal conse
 rvation literature from the role of offsets as ecological ‘commodities
 ’ to the way offsetting is used to support the production of space(s)\, 
 place(s) and nature(s). By drawing on empirical work in the UK\, and speci
 fically on two controversial housing developments in South East (Lodge Hil
 l) and in North East (North Tyneside) England\, I will highlight the histo
 rically specific interactions and socio-economic and political contexts th
 at explain why and when biodiversity offsetting is selected as the appropr
 iate policy to resolve conservation-development conflicts. I conclude that
  conflicts around the use of space and nature involve fundamentally politi
 cal questions\, and must be addressed in political terms by identifying th
 e strategies through which a more egalitarian mode of democratically produ
 cing socially and environmentally just natures can be achieved.
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Department of Geography
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