The financialization of nature is underway. Yet the processes through which financialization transforms spaces previously outside markets remains relatively unknown. We address this gap by examining the financialization work conducted by conservationists while attempting to protect the...

The current biodiversity loss is dramatic. Over the past 50 years, more than 68% of the mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and fish on earth have disappeared, putting the planet's survival and its inhabitants—including human beings—at risk. Financialization, or the transformation of...

To reduce SDG tradeoffs in infrastructure provision, and to inform searches for SDG synergies, the authors show that roads’ impacts on Brazilian Amazon forests varied significantly across frontiers. Impacts varied predictably with prior development – prior roads and prior deforestation –...