Enterprising nature : economics, markets and finance in global biodiversity politics

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acronyms -- Series Editors' Preface -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Enterprising Nature -- In the beginning, There Was failure -- Are you Being Served? Two Images of Enterprising Nature -- A second image: Buying the axe -- Enterprising Nature: A Dual Definition -- "To enterprise" -- The Friction-Filled Terrain of the Neoliberal, the Universal, the Global, and the Enterprising -- "In the middle of things" -- Four Tensions within Enterprising Nature -- In what ways does enterprising nature both politicize and de-politicize conservation? -- Is the ranking of socioecologies emancipatory or exclusionary? Is it even possible? -- What are the risks and opportunities of endless ecological simplifications? -- What is the "human place in nature"? -- Notes -- Chapter 2 The Problem and Promise of Biodiversity Loss -- Rivets Are Popping All Over the Place: Extinction as Global Biopolitical Concern -- An ecological universal and its "others" -- Intrinsically bad humans (for the most part) -- Rise of the Crisis and Promise of Global Biodiversity -- Measuring biodiversity loss -- Imperialistic natures? -- The limitless potential of biodiversity -- Liberal Natures? The Rise of the Convention on Biological Diversity -- Shiva interruptus -- Notes -- Chapter 3 An Ecological-Economic Tribunal for (Nonhuman) Life -- An Ecological-Economic Tribunal -- Ecologists and Economists Unite! -- The Beijer Institute Project on Biodiversity -- Finding the sweet spot for conservation -- Ecology in the Ecological‐Economic Tribunal -- How does biodiversity matter? The rivet-passenger debate -- Getting On with the Adjudicating: What Is Necessary and What Is Surplus -- The "endless accounting" of the Beijer Institute -- An Economic Tribunal for Cranes (Group Gruiformes) -- Rationalizing Biological Diversity Loss -- Waiting for the tribunal.