Abstract
This article assesses the potential for reconnecting human and non- human nature in global post-COVID-19 recovery plans. The article utilises a critical perspective on the neoliberalisation of nature as a framing, as well as the case of sustainability and deforestation in forest risk commodity supply chains, to assess whether sustainable development initiatives and neoliberal environmental governance adequately protect the interests of vulnerable human and non- human nature. It finds that existing approaches to sustainable development in international governance prioritise liberalised global markets and the neoliberalisation of nature through commodification, privatisation and marketisation, thus furthering an unjust human-nature dichotomy by placing humans separate from nature and removing the intrinsic value of non-human materiality. It identifies a synergy between the global campaign to ‘build back better’ after COVID-19, environmental regulation and principles of Wild Law. The article concludes by recommending that a just post- pandemic economic recovery must realign the human experience as a part of the wider whole of the non-human natural world.
Highlights
This article assesses the potential for reconnecting human and nonhuman nature in global post-COVID-19 recovery plans
Recent trends in neoliberal environmental governance, sustainable forest risk commodity supply chains and forestry resource management, unjustly expose non-human nature to the market whilst simultaneously placing forest communities at risk of injustice through weak commitments to sustainability in international environmental governance
It puts forward the recommendation that a post-pandemic economic recovery must align with a greater commitment within environmental law and governance to accommodate the human experience as a part of the wider whole of the non-human natural world
Summary
This article assesses the potential for reconnecting human and nonhuman nature in global post-COVID-19 recovery plans. Recent trends in neoliberal environmental governance, sustainable forest risk commodity supply chains (i.e. industries with deforestation embedded in their supply chains) and forestry resource management, unjustly expose non-human nature to the market whilst simultaneously placing forest communities at risk of injustice through weak commitments to sustainability in international environmental governance.
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