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Rethinking trade-offs in nature-based solutions from a multispecies justice perspective
Katinka Wijsman1, Melissa Pineda-Pinto2, Simo Sarkki3,4
1Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Trade-offs in nature-based solutions are increasingly recognized, with novel research interrogating their justice implications. Yet, these trade-offs and justice implications remain entrenched in an anthropocentric orientation, which is problematic in ecological and ethical terms. We discuss four common assumptions on trade-offs in NBS (instrumentalism, neutrality of science, collaborative consensus, and unitemporality) and rethink them through a multispecies justice lens, maintaining that dealing with trade-offs is a form of interspecies politics.
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