Nature's Worth: Using Human Markets to Value Ecosystems' Contributions

Anna Krol & Lisa Jean Moore — 2018-02-20T06:00:00Z

Mattijs van Maasakkers' The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States: The Challenge of Trading Places pulls readers into the complex relationship between environment and economy. In this multi-sited ethnography, Van Maasakkers hones in on three large-scale US conservation and restoration projects, exposing gaps in market-based approaches and the ultimate failure of the financialization of nature.
How is the value of an ecological site measured? By the numbers? The 1.35

- Reviews / environment, nature, ethnography, ecosystems, financialization, markets, ecosystem services

“Build a Wall”: The Wrong Solution for Our Coastal Problems. An Interview with Jennifer Mattei

Jennifer H. Mattei & Lisa Jean Moore — 2017-02-07T16:47:00Z

Metropolitics editorial committee member and sociologist Lisa Jean Moore interviewed biologist Jennifer Mattei, an expert on coastal ecology and restoration, on January 25, 2017 about coastal restoration, “reef balls,” and how cities of the future can become a part of the natural world rather than walling it out.
What is a living shoreline?
Living shorelines, a concept that is now being developed and promoted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), are nature-based

- Interviews / environment, United States, water, New York, sea-level rise, coastal ecology, coastal restoration, living shorelines, East Coast, Connecticut, coast, sea, ecosystems, ocean, conservation