L’économicisation de la nature, réalités historiques et mythes contemporains

Harold Levrel and Antoine Missemer

No 2016.24, Working Papers from FAERE - French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

Abstract: It is more and more common to read in scientific papers that there is a deep trend of economicization of nature that would be expressed through monetization mechanisms, privatization and commodification. No doubt some phenomena of economicisation are real. Nevertheless, they deserve to be closely examined to see firstly that they are not new in the history of human-nature relationships, and to emphasize that they compete with some trends of dis-economicization of nature, that it is also necessary to take into account today in order to have a complete picture of the situation. Our contribution therefore aims to clarify the debate, distinguishing the reality of such phenomenon with some myths in this economization of nature, stressing that this trend is neither new nor irreversible, nor linear and it does not seem inextricably linked to the raise of the (neo) liberalism.

Keywords: nature; ecosystem services; biodiversity; monetary valuation; marchandisation; privatisation; commodification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B1 B2 N5 Q2 Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2016-09
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