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Measuring Intangible Values: Rethinking How to Evaluate Socially Beneficial Actions book cover

1st Edition

Measuring Intangible Values Rethinking How to Evaluate Socially Beneficial Actions

By Marie Harder, Gemma Burford Copyright 2019
192 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book explores the complex problem of how to measure the ‘success’ of social organisations, projects and activities. Whether improving a local situation, organizing a campaign around sustainability, or assessing the intangible effects of perceived social benefits, currently we have only have a very limited range of mechanisms for judging effectiveness. On the one hand, a market-driven logic... Read more

Introduction

Part 1: Designing a values-based framework

1. Why values?

2. Articulating values, framing processes 3. Developing a values-based approach: the case of Echeri

Part 2: Key themes in measuring intangible social values

4. Issues in making values tangible

5. Designing processes: the criticality of deep participation 6. Values and validity

Part 3: Putting a values-based framework into practice

7. Sustainability and business ethics

8. Mapping intangible legacies

9. Towards sustainable behavior change in schools

10. Conclusion: what happens when values are central

Appendix: Set 1 Sustainable Development Indicators (SDIs) from original ESDinds Project

Biography

Marie Harder is a China National Thousand Talents Professor at Fudan University, Shanghai, and the founder and head of the Values and Sustainability research group at the University of Brighton UK.

Gemma Burford has been a Research Fellow in Sustainable Development at the University of Brighton, UK and previously worked in Tanzania as Founder and Co-Director of the NGO Aang Serian (‘House of Peace’).

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