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SUMMARY:Securing the ‘value of nature’? Biodiversity offsetting in Eng
 land and the implications for conservation policy at home and abroad - Lou
 ise Carver
DTSTART:20171010T120000Z
DTEND:20171010T130000Z
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CONTACT:Josie Chambers
DESCRIPTION:Policy and business rhetoric over the need to ‘value’ natu
 re has animated recent efforts by the UK Government to introduce mechanism
 s for biodiversity offsetting (BDO) into English land planning systems. Bi
 odiversity offsetting was officially trialled in England by the UK Departm
 ent for Environment\, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) through a 2-year pilo
 t study between 2012-2014. While it was unfeasible for Government to adopt
  the approach formally\, BDO has continued to proliferate across numerous 
 local government and commercial contexts in a semi-voluntary\, largely un-
 regulated capacity.\n \nBiodiversity offsetting seeks compensation for hab
 itat loss associated with infrastructure and residential development throu
 gh securing gains for losses ‘in a measurable way’.  As such BDO is fr
 equently positioned as a win-win solution that reconciles economic develop
 ment and conservation through delivering the 'no net loss' of biodiversity
  ‘values’. Drawing from a 30-month fieldwork engagement with the Engli
 sh BDO government pilot study\, this paper investigates the processes that
  performatively shape the ‘value of nature’ through a valuation techno
 logy such as biodiversity offsetting. It will discuss the various implicat
 ions of the approach for conservation policy and science as well as critic
 ally reflecting on the discourse around win-wins in conservation policy\, 
 forecast through this nascent move towards 'valuing' biodiversity. 
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Department of Geography
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