期刊
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
卷 15, 期 -, 页码 162-173出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2015.01.009
关键词
Biodiversity offsetting; No Net Loss; Discourse analysis; Value struggles; Framing
资金
- Leverhulme Trust [RP2012-V-041]
- AFIRC [AH/K005871/2]
- Arts and Humanities Research Council [AH/K005871/2] Funding Source: researchfish
- AHRC [AH/K005871/2] Funding Source: UKRI
Biodiversity offsetting (BDO) is presented as capable of mitigating development-related harm to populations of species while simultaneously enhancing economic development. The technique involves constructing such harm as a result of market failures, which can be resolved through market solutions. BDO is contentious, attracting outspoken proponents and opponents in equal measure. We examine competing perspectives of interested non-governmental actors through a structured discourse analysis, using qualitative data coding, of 24 written evidence submissions to the UK Parliament's Environmental Audit Committee's 2013 Inquiry into Biodiversity Offsetting in England. Nuanced positions and areas of agreement notwithstanding, we find that there is a discernible oppositional pattern producing core polarities between organisations favouring and resisting BDO. In interpreting these oppositional dynamics we observe that it is unlikely that this impasse can be resolved since although the debate is framed in terms of differences of view regarding the effectiveness or desirability of specific technical aspects of BDO policy, these differences arise from fundamentally divergent value framings. Struggles over offsetting involve irresolvable value struggles, and negotiations over the assumed (ir)rationality of biodiversity offsetting are thus located firmly within political and ideological arenas. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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