Offsetting Extraction

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract This chapter examines efforts by extractive companies to reduce their environmental impacts through biodiversity offsets. It argued that such policies of ‘ecological compensation’ are on the rise as they gain support among some conservationists and become mobilized by corporations in order to open mines in ecologically sensitive areas through the promise conservation biodiversity ‘equivalents’ in areas elsewhere. The chapter points out that these politics can be harmful for local communities through regimes of ‘double exception’ imposing restriction on their settlements, livelihoods, and socioenvironmental relations. Whereas the socioenvironmental outcomes of these extraction offsets and natural climate solutions may not always be negative for communities, they reflect uneven power relations that often result in limited forms of prior consultation, selective forms of compensation and exploitative forms of inclusion, as well as outright forms of oppression.
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Authors Philippe Le Billon
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Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/oso/9780197873434.003.0016
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197873434.003.0016
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