ecofunctional nature

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is an environmental policy that claims to 'optimize economic growth and ecosystem health' through market-based interventions.

environmental policy that claims to 'optimize economic growth and ecosystem health' through market-based interventions. He describes how, through this process, a long-standing preoccupation with 'nature for contemplation' in the form of protected areas reserved for enjoyment by societal elites has been transformed into a 'nature for speculation' (a double entendre signifying the synchronization of financial markets and media representations) that incorporates elements of the previous approach while dramatically transforming the human-environment relationship at the heart of this imaginary. In closing, Igoe highlights what is obscured by this spectacle of ecofunctional nature, namely, the 'micropolitics' of quotidian struggles for control over both the access to and the signification of the nonhuman natures at stake in all of this'

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