Locating Value - Theory, Application and Critique (Hardcover)

This book considers the concept of 'value' at the root of our actions and decision-making. Value is an ever-present, yet little interrogated aspect of everyday life. This book explores value as it is theorised, practiced and critiqued from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. It examines how value is operationalized, endorsed and contested in contemporary society. With international insights from leading scholars, chapters offer a diverse and vibrant geographical engagement with value to showcase its conceptual flexibility. The book explores value's eclectic epistemic foundations; it's 'roll-out' and legitimation across a range of policy fields; and its challenges and opportunities. The book draws on global examples of value in practice: from forest conservation in Indonesia; protected area management in arctic Norway; a state park in the US; certification schemes for biodiversity in the UK; protection of the international night sky; heritage planning in East Taiwan; a re-developed airport site in Norway; a, local food networks in Canada and the UK; a market in the US and urban development in China. The book will be of interest to human geographers, political ecologists, heritage scholars and practitioners, planners and those working in public policy, as well as practitioners and policy makers interested in how valuation processes work.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in Human Geography
Release date:	December 2019
First published:	2017
Editors:	Samantha Saville • Gareth Hoskins
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	214
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-85223-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > General Promotions
LSN:	1-138-85223-6
Barcode:	9781138852235

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