Programmes to address global warming and promote green development, such as Payments for Ecosystem Services and Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and [forest] Degradation financed by carbon-offset trading, are framed by a world-as-market paradigm that subsumes social goals within a project of globalized eco-economic management. Because market-based strategies reinforce existing property claims and power relations, Kathleen McAfee argues that they are likely to worsen inequality without yielding net, global environmental benefits.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/nature-market-world-ecosystem-services-and-inequality
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/kathleen-mcafee
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/development
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ecosystem-services
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/world-bank
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/development
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/cse
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/global-warming
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-mitigation
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/redd