Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation

Creating Values that Matter

Sarah Bracking, Aurora Fredriksen, Sian Sullivan, Philip Woodhouse (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-66500-5 (ISBN)

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Drawing on rich empirical material, Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation is perfect for researchers and students within development studies, environment, geography, politics and sociology who are looking for new insights into how valuation actually works in the 21st century.

Policy-makers are increasingly trying to assign economic values to areas such as ecologies, the atmosphere, even human lives. These new values, assigned to areas previously considered outside of economic systems, often act to qualify, alter or replace former non-pecuniary values. Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation looks to explore the complex interdependencies, contradictions and trade-offs that can take place between economic values and the social, environmental, political and ethical systems that inform non-monetary valuation processes.

Using rich empirical material, the book explores the processes of valuation, their components, calculative technologies, and outcomes in different social, ecological and conservation domains. The book gives reasons for why economic calculation tends to dominate in practice, but also presents new insights on how the disobedient materiality of things and the ingenuity of human and non-human agencies can combine and frustrate the dominant economic models within calculative processes.

This book highlights the tension between, on the one hand, a dominant model that emphasises technical and ‘universalising’ criteria, and on the other hand, valuation practice in specific local contexts which is more likely to negotiate criteria that are plural, incommensurable and political. This book is perfect for researchers and students within development studies, environment, geography, politics, sociology and anthropology who are looking for new insights into how processes of valuation take place in the 21st century, and with what consequential outcomes.

Sarah Bracking is Professor of Climate and Society in the School of Global Affairs, King’s College London, UK Aurora Fredriksen is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester, UK Sian Sullivan is Professor of Environment and Culture, Bath Spa University, UK Philip Woodhouse is Professor of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, UK.

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List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introducing values that matter

Sarah Bracking, Aurora Fredriksen, Sian Sullivan and Philip Woodhouse

Value(s) and valuation in development, conservation and environment

Sarah Bracking, Aurora Fredriksen, Sian Sullivan and Philip Woodhouse

Part 1: Development

Assembling value for money in the UK Department for International Development

Aurora Fredriksen

The value of human life in health systems and social spaces: the HIV/AIDS context in Zimbabwe

Fortunate Machingura

Valuing infrastructure: competing financial and social valuations in the South Durban port expansion

Sarah Bracking and Aurora Fredriksen

Part 2: Conservation

Bonding nature(s)? Funds, financiers and values at the impact investing edge in environmental conservation

Sian Sullivan

Creating conservation values under DEFRA’s biodiversity offsetting pilot and the pragmatics of a using a calculative device

Louise Emily Carver and Sian Sullivan

Part 3: Environment

A crash in value: explaining the decline of the Clean Development Mechanism

Robert Watt

Climate changing civil society: The role of value and knowledge in designing the Green Climate Fund

Jonas Amtoft Bruun

Water values and the negotiation of water use

Phil Woodhouse and Mike Muller

‘Some are more equal than others’: narratives of scarcity and the outcome of South Africa’s water reform

Rebecca Peters and Phil Woodhouse

Conclusion: the limits of economic valuation

Sarah Bracking, Aurora Fredriksen, Sian Sullivan and Philip Woodhouse

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Erscheinungsdatum	01.10.2020
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	470 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-367-66500-X / 036766500X
ISBN-13	978-0-367-66500-5 / 9780367665005
Zustand	Neuware