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Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation: Creating Values that Matter book cover

1st Edition

Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation Creating Values that Matter

Edited By Sarah Bracking, Aurora Fredriksen, Sian Sullivan, Philip Woodhouse Copyright 2019
252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

List of figures and tables



List of contributors



Acknowledgements







  1. Introducing values that matter




    2. Sarah Bracking, Aurora Fredriksen, Sian Sullivan and Philip Woodhouse





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




    3. Sarah Bracking, Aurora Fredriksen, Sian Sullivan and Philip Woodhouse



    Part 1: Development





  3. Assembling value for money in the UK Department for International Development




    4. Aurora Fredriksen





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




    5. Fortunate Machingura





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




    6. Sarah Bracking and Aurora Fredriksen



    Part 2: Conservation





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




    7. Sian Sullivan





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




    8. Louise Emily Carver and Sian Sullivan



    Part 3: Environment





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




    9. Robert Watt



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




    10. Jonas Amtoft Bruun





  10. Water values and the negotiation of water use




    11. Phil Woodhouse and Mike Muller





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




    12. Rebecca Peters and Phil Woodhouse





  12. Conclusion: the limits of economic valuation




Sarah Bracking, Aurora Fredriksen, Sian Sullivan and Philip Woodhouse



Index

Biography



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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