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Articles | Volume 16, issue 1
Articles | Volume 16, issue 1
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Biodiversity offsetting in England: governance rescaling, socio-spatial injustices, and the neoliberalization of nature

Evangelia Apostolopoulou

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I use primary empirical data obtained through interviews in case studies around England to explore the neoliberal character of biodiversity offsetting, its interrelationship with governance rescaling, and the way the latter influences the distribution of offsetting’s costs and benefits. My results show that biodiversity offsetting in England has been a reactionary neoliberal policy characterized by important deficits from an environmental and socio-spatial justice perspective.
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