Mike Hannis

Associate lecturer at the Open University, and has a honorary research fellowship in environmental politics and philosophy at Keele University. . Mike is an editor of The Land magazine

Mike Hannis

Offsetting Nature?: Habitat Banking and Biodiversity Offsets in the English Land Use Planning System

Hannis and Sullivan argue that by encouraging us to think that one bit of nature is much like another, biodiversity offsetting undermines the unique place-based relationships between people and nature, moving us further away from ecological sustainability.