Locating Value (eBook, ePUB)

Theory, Application and Critique
Redaktion: Saville, Samantha; Hoskins, Gareth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book considers value as it is theorised, practiced, and critiqued from varied disciplinary perspectives. Value's growing currency within social, cultural, and environmental policy is the latest manifestation of a long running faith in this concept.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317528692
• Artikelnr.: 58289203

Autorenporträt

Sam Saville is currently an ESRC postdoctoral research fellow in Human geography at Aberystwyth University and is extending her doctoral work on value and environmental politics in Svalbard. Her research and publications span interests in polar geography, political ecology, climate change and rural globalization. Gareth Hoskins is senior lecturer in Geography at Aberystwyth University where he teaches on a variety of topics including urban geography, the politics of memory, heritage, and material culture. His publications involve case studies in the United States, United Kingdom and South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

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