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The re‐territorialisation of biodiversity conservation under neoliberalism in the UK

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ID8963503
AuthorsWilliam M Adams (0000-0001-7372-8455, Department of Geography University of Cambridge Cambridge CB2 3EN), Ian Hodges (0000-0003-2679-3478, University of Cambridge), Ian D Hodge (Department of Land Economy University of Cambridge Cambridge CB3 9EP), Lindsey C Sandbrook (University of Cambridge), Lindsey Sandbrook (Fauna & Flora International, Jupiter House, Cambridge CB1 2JD (previously at Department of Geography University of Cambridge Cambridge CB2 3EN))
Year2013
Volume39
Issue4
Pages574-588
Publication date2013-12-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/tran.12050
OpenAlexW2113367634
LanguageEN
Citations received40
References cited74

Biodiversity conservation is a fundamentally spatial practice. For more than a century, conservation's leading strategy has been the establishment of protected areas. Governance by the state has been central to conservation's claim to territory. In the UK , the established approach to biodiversity conservation concentrated on spatial strategies of territorialisation to secure particular outcomes in relatively small pieces of land, set aside as protected areas. However, this strategy has begun to change, and conservation's expanding territorial claims have been expressed through new models of large‐scale conservation. A series of projects developed by non‐governmental conservation organisations seek to extend conservation management over larger areas of land. In this paper we consider these developments as a form of re‐territorialisation, a reframing and extension of conservation's spatial claims. We describe how conservation's ambitions have been reformed and extended and discuss evidence on the growth of large‐scale biodiversity conservation projects in the UK . We then consider the implications of these changes in the light of the neoliberalisation of conservation

Biodiversity · Biodiversity conservation · Biology · Business · Cognitive reframing · Conservation psychology · Corporate governance · Economics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Natural resource economics · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Scale (ratio · Set-aside · Wildlife · Wildlife conservation · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ecology · Forest Management and Policy · Geographies of human-animal interactions

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Citations per year3,33
Citation span2014 - 2026 (13)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
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