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Environmental Compensation and the Mediation of Environmental Change: Making Capital out of Cardiff Bay

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The scope for compensating for environmental loss or degradation with some form of balancing environmental gain (such as habitat creation) has attracted critical attention from conservationists and policy makers. However, it is increasingly apparent that concentrating on technical skills, and adopting a linear analytical framework, disguise the range of social processes at work. Engaging in environmental compensation is, almost inevitably, a process of considerable ecological, evaluative and institutional transformation. Moreover, taking increasing control of this process through detailed management may accelerate the transformation of nature into 'capital'. These arguments are developed through a case-study of Cardiff Bay, where the implementation of habitat creation compensating for the loss of inter-tidal mud flats became linked to the implementation of the European Habitats Directive, a policy lever which served to both intensify and rationalize these transformations.

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  • Richard Cowell, 2000. "Environmental Compensation and the Mediation of Environmental Change: Making Capital out of Cardiff Bay," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(5), pages 689-710.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:43:y:2000:i:5:p:689-710
    DOI: 10.1080/713676580
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    1. Kyriazi, Zacharoula & Lejano, Raul & Maes, Frank & Degraer, Steven, 2015. "Bargaining a net gain compensation agreement between a marine renewable energy developer and a marine protected area manager," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 60(C), pages 40-48.
    2. Richard Cowell & Huw Thomas, 2002. "Managing Nature and Narratives of Dispossession: Reclaiming Territory in Cardiff Bay," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 39(7), pages 1241-1260, June.
    3. Houeida Hedfi & Ahlem Dakhlaoui & Abdessalem Abbassi, 2020. "Dynamic Behaviour of Hydro/Thermal Electrical Operators Under an Environmental Policy Targeting to Preserve Ecosystems Integrity and Air Quality," Working Papers halshs-02523330, HAL.

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