Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation - Creating Values That Matter

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Fredriksen Bracking
• Assisted by: Sarah Bracking (Editor), Aurora Fredriksen (Editor), Sian Sullivan (Editor), Sullivan Sian (Editor), Philip Woodhouse (Editor), Woodhouse Philip (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367665005
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66500-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Ethics & moral philosophy, Conservation of the environment, Ethics and moral philosophy, Human Geography, Development Studies, Development and environmental geography