Natalie Stokel
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Overview
Natalie Stokel appears in The continent nobody owns & everyone benefits from (Summer School) as the economist who gives the episode its Antarctic valuation frame.
Current Profile
Stokel’s role is to make Antarctica economically legible without reducing it to ordinary commerce. She argues that economics can study global resources even where markets are sparse, then uses tourism, fisheries, and especially climate services to estimate an annual Antarctic value of about $180 billion.
Key Characteristics
- She is identified in the source as a professor of economics at the University of Tasmania.
- Her strongest contribution is Non-Market Environmental Valuation for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.
- She is explicit about discomfort with pricing nature but treats valuation as a defensive tool for decision-making.
- Her governance account emphasizes trust, collaboration, respect, and sanctions rather than ordinary ownership.
Evidence
- Economist role: The continent nobody owns & everyone benefits from (Summer School) introduces Stokel as an economics professor studying Antarctica’s value.
- Valuation method: The continent nobody owns & everyone benefits from (Summer School) attributes tourism, fisheries, and climate-service valuation to Stokel’s work.
- Pricing-nature qualification: The continent nobody owns & everyone benefits from (Summer School) says Stokel feels uneasy pricing nature but sees price as a way to make damage visible to power.
Qualifications
This page records Stokel only as she appears in the episode. It does not attempt to summarize her full research record or independently verify the study’s methodology.
What Changed
- Initial page created from The continent nobody owns & everyone benefits from (Summer School); no prior canonical Natalie Stokel page existed.
Relationships
- Antarctica - main object of Stokel’s valuation in the source.
- Southern Ocean - ocean system included in the valuation frame.
- Non-Market Environmental Valuation - method associated with her source contribution.
- Antarctic Climate Services - largest value mechanism in her estimate.
- Trust-Based Commons Governance - governance frame she describes for Antarctic protection.