Business Interests and the Environmental Crisis
About this ebook
This book highlights the manner in which key aspects in policy discourse—commodity, pricing, ownership, and regulation—have borrowed economic and trade principles to address the environmental crisis and to what effect. The book addresses a fundamental issue in environment: if nature is no longer available as a limitless resource, how has the policy discourse on the environmental crisis come to view it, value it, and live with it?
Analysing policy instruments across sectors that respond to local ecological conflicts and challenges, the book offers a conceptual understanding of how natural elements are transformed into mobile, tradable commodities through the use of market-based instruments.
About the author
Kanchi Kohli is a researcher and writer working on environment, forest, and biodiversity governance in India. Her work explores the links between law, industrialization, and environment justice. She works through the strength of different institutions and has authored several publications, individually and in teams. One of her current areas of research locates the concept of commodification of nature in real time environment policy and sustainability discourses.
Manju Menon is Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. She has researched and written on environment, law, and development for over two decades. Her main areas of work are environmental lawmaking and implementation processes and regulatory decisions on siting of infrastructure projects. She collaborates with local, regional, and thematic networks working on decentralized resource governance and environmental compliance.
