Description
Book SynopsisThis book considers the concept of âvalueâ 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 valueâs eclectic epistemic foundations; itâs âroll-outâ 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-d
Table of Contents
List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; 1. Locating Value: An Introduction; Part I: Knowing Value 2. Spectral geometries: value sub specie spatii and sensuous supersensibility; 3. Locating heritage value; 4. Making values visible and real, but not necessarily monetised; 5. "There’s no such thing as a unit of biodiversity": contesting value and biodiversity offsetting in England; 6. Commensuration as value making: transforming nature in English biodiversity offsetting under the DEFRA metric; Part II: Spacing Value 7. Regimes of value in a Chicago market; 8. Urban planning practice and the transformation of value in China: Evidence from the city of Yangzhou; 9. Locating value in the Anthropocene: baselines and the contested nature of invasive plants; 10. "And what do you do with five-hundred million stars?" Assessment of darkness and the starry sky, values and integration in regional planning; 11. Value and diminishment: Listing State Park closures, the 2011 attempt to meet General Fund reductions in California; Part III: Practicing Value 12. Unsettled value: re-identifying tobacco agriculture as heritage in eastern Taiwan; 13. Locating value(s) in political ecologies of knowledge: The East Svalbard management plan; 14. Locating value in food value chains; 15. Private finance evaluation amongst REDD+ projects in Indonesia; Index
