TY - BOOK
T1 - Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation
T2 - Creating Values that Matter
A2 - Bracking, Sarah Louise
A2 - Fredriksen, Aurora
A2 - Sullivan, Sian
A2 - Woodhouse, Philip
N1 - This book is a result of research carried out within the Leverhulme Centre for the Study of Value (LCSV) using funding from the Leverhulme Trust, award no. RP2012-V-041. Within the umbrella project Human, non-human and environmental values: an impossible frontier? (RP2012-V-041) we carried out case studies under five separate research themes, each concerned with the ways people and the non-human world are valued in the humanitarian, development, environmental and agricultural fields. All of our cases explored how calculative rationality, accounting ‘devices’, notional values and value framings are increasingly incorporating evermore entities into socially articulated markets and spaces as well as the effects these have on the wellbeing of people and the non-human environment. The LCSV was established in 2012 by Professor Sarah Bracking, with the generous support of the Leverhulme Trust, to whom we are extremely grateful. The LCSV supported an international and inter-institutional team of researchers, including project Co-Investigators, Research Associates and postgraduate students based at the University of Manchester and at Birkbeck, University of London, as well as research affiliates at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, Bath Spa University in the UK and the University of Virginia in the United States. Our interdisciplinary team of researchers combined a diverse range of theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches and field experiences to bear on the study of value. Sarah Bracking was the Principal Investigator and award holder, while Sian Sullivan and Philip Woodhouse were Co-Investigators of the programme and leaders of their respective research projects and teams, with administrative, managerial and intellectual responsibilities shared in a collective structure. Patrick Bond and James Igoe were internationally affiliated, and Dan Brockington played an important role as the initial adviser to the project documentation. They were joined by Research Associates Aurora Fredriksen and Elisa Greco, and Doctoral students Jonas Amtoft Bruun, Louise Emily Carver, Fortunate Machingura, Rachael Morgan and Robert Watt. More information about LCSV and our working paper series can be found on our website, thestudyofvalue.org. There are many persons, and things, who contributed to the success of the programme of research and lest we omit any accidently we give only a collective vote of appreciation here.
The Leverhulme Trust was established in 1925 under the Will of the first Viscount Leverhulme. It is one of the largest all-subject providers of research funding in the UK, distributing funds of some £60 million every year. For further information about the schemes that the Leverhulme Trust fund visit their website at www.leverhulme.ac.uk/www.twitter.com/ LeverhulmeTrust
PY - 2018/11/7
Y1 - 2018/11/7
N2 - 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 nonhuman 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.
AB - 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 nonhuman 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.
KW - Valuation
KW - ENVIRONMENT
KW - conservation
KW - international development
KW - value
U2 - https://www.routledge.com/Valuing-Development-Environment-and-Conservation-Creating-Values-that/Bracking-Fredriksen-Sullivan-Woodhouse/p/book/9781138080515
DO - https://www.routledge.com/Valuing-Development-Environment-and-Conservation-Creating-Values-that/Bracking-Fredriksen-Sullivan-Woodhouse/p/book/9781138080515
M3 - Book
SN - 9781138080515
T3 - Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
BT - Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation
PB - Routlege
CY - Abingdon
ER -