The commodification of nature, through privatization, marketization, monetary valuation and other associated processes, has become a central topic in social sciences to examine the conditions and effects of the economic approaches for supporting conservation policies all around the world. The aim of this contribution is to delineate the current state of knowledge, within and beyond ecological economics, and to see, with some historical perspective, how commodification has been systematized in the literature. The results are as follows: (i) studies of commodification processes remain essentially critical, with a central role played by economists, political ecologists and geographers; (ii) over the past 15 years, we have seen more fragmentation than consolidation of the field; (iii) researchers avoid analytical shortcuts, but do not always well define what they mean by commodification. The construction of visual representations – we propose a ‘commodification chain’ – and the identification of decommodification opportunities are future lines of research that would be promising, particularly for the community of ecological economists.

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自然的商品化，社会科学评论

通过私有化、市场化、货币估价和其他相关过程，自然商品化已成为社会科学的核心主题，以研究支持世界各地保护政策的经济方法的条件和效果。这篇文章的目的是描绘生态经济学内外的知识现状，并从一些历史的角度来看，商品化是如何在文献中系统化的。结果如下： (i) 商品化过程的研究本质上仍然至关重要，经济学家、政治生态学家和地理学家发挥着核心作用；(ii) 在过去的 15 年中，我们看到该领域的分裂多于整合；(iii) 研究人员避免分析捷径，但并不总是很好地定义商品化的含义。视觉表现的构建——我们提出了一个“商品化链”——以及去商品化机会的识别是未来有希望的研究方向，特别是对于生态经济学家社区。