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Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation - Creating Values that Matter (Paperback)
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Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation - Creating Values that Matter (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
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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 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 non-human 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.
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