{"product_id":"locating-value-9781138852235","title":"Locating Value","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; 1. Locating Value: An Introduction; \u003cb\u003ePart I: Knowing Value\u003c\/b\u003e 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; \u003cb\u003ePart II: Spacing Value\u003c\/b\u003e 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; \u003cb\u003ePart III: Practicing Value\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577849483607,"sku":"9781138852235","price":128.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138852235.jpg?v=1746096962","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/locating-value-9781138852235","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}