http://hdl.handle.net/2173/94621 Sat, 25 May 2013 12:19:24 GMT 2013-05-25T12:19:24Z http://hdl.handle.net/2173/110684 Title: Legislating nature for biodiversity offsets in New South Wales, Australia Authors: Hillman, Mick; Instone, Lesley Abstract: In the contemporary environmental management landscape, legislation is a principal means through which sustainable outcomes are negotiated. Yet the relations between legislation (as a social practice), nature and justice have been subjected to limited scrutiny. This paper explores these relations through consideration of a system of biodiversity offsets currently being implemented in New South Wales, Australia, following the enactment of the Threatened Species Conservation Amendment (Biodiversity Banking) Act 2006 (NSW). In this paper we investigate the work this legislation does in enacting the materiality of nature in order to explore the interrelations of materiality, law and concerns for environmental and ecological justice. We argue that the act of 'legislating nature' is simultaneously a 'mode of matter-ing' (Law 2004) that in the case of biodiversity banking (BioBanking), resituates biodiversity within new meanings, spatialities, human-nature relations, and which accounts for biodiversity at a state, rather than local, scale. Utilising the work of Latour, we examine the processes of 'translation' required to generate abstracted 'biodiversity values' that can be traded and moved between locations. Examination of these processes leads to a consideration of the broad requirements of environmental and ecological justice as a theoretical and political response to BioBanking. Description: Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in Social & Cultural Geography, published by and copyright Routledge. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2173/110684 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2173/98619 Title: Cosmopolitanism Authors: Binnie, Jon; Holloway, Julian; Millington, Steve; Young, Craig Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2173/98619 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2173/98638 Title: Heritage tourism in East and Central Europe and the former Soviet Union Authors: Light, Duncan; Young, Craig; Czepczynski, Mariousz Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2173/98638 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2173/98636 Title: Twenty years after the Wall: geographical imaginaries of 'Europe' during European Union enlargement Authors: Sellar, Christian; Staddon, Caedmon; Young, Craig Description: Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in Journal of Cultural Geography, published by and copyright Routledge. Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2173/98636 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z