Kanchi Kohli is a researcher and writer working on environment, forest, and biodiversity governance in India. Her work explores the links between law, industrialization, and environment justice. She works through the strength of different institutions and has authored several publications, individually and in teams. One of her current areas of research locates the concept of commodification of nature in real time environment policy and sustainability discourses. Manju Menon is Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. She has researched and written on environment, law, and development for over two decades. Her main areas of work are environmental lawmaking and implementation processes and regulatory decisions on siting of infrastructure projects. She collaborates with local, regional, and thematic networks working on decentralized resource governance and environmental compliance.

• PrefaceIntroduction: Green and Pink - Kanchi Kohli and Manju MenonSECTION I. EXAMINING ‘NATURE’ IN BUSINESSBringing Liquidity to Life: Markets for Ecosystem Services and the New Political Economy of Extinction - Jeremy WalkerClaiming Benefits, Making Commodities - Shalini BhutaniThe Abstract Nature of Building - Himanshu BurteCoal Accounting: The Story of Fuel Kept Cheap - Vinuta GopalSECTION II. DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE OF NATUREValue as a Justification in Water Resource Development - Shripad DharmadhikaryThe Effectiveness and Equity of Payments for Reducing Forest Loss - Simone LoveraSelling Nature: Narratives of Coercion, Resistance, and Ecology - Soumitra GhoshPutting Peoplehood at the Centre of the Green Economy - Sanjay Kabir Bavikatte and Daniel F RobinsonIndex

"The book covers a wide range of topics with contributions by diverse practitioners and academics… [it] re-inserts the idea of the ‘political’ into the notion of ‘value’, which is critical to understanding its real gainers and the losers…. The volume deals with the idea of ‘nature’ as a commodity, and its governance in the real world."