Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation: Creating Values That Matter

ISBN-13: 9780367665005 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str.

Sarah Bracking; Aurora Fredriksen; Sian Sullivan

Opis

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.

Spis treści

List of figures and tables

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

1. Introducing values that matter







Sarah Bracking, Aurora Fredriksen, Sian Sullivan and Philip Woodhouse









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







Sarah Bracking, Aurora Fredriksen, Sian Sullivan and Philip Woodhouse





Part 1: Development









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







Aurora Fredriksen









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







Fortunate Machingura









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







Sarah Bracking and Aurora Fredriksen





Part 2: Conservation









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







Sian Sullivan









7. 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









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







Robert Watt




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







Jonas Amtoft Bruun









10. Water values and the negotiation of water use







Phil Woodhouse and Mike Muller









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







Rebecca Peters and Phil Woodhouse









12. Conclusion: the limits of economic valuation

Sarah Bracking, Aurora Fredriksen, Sian Sullivan and Philip Woodhouse

Index

O autorze

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.