Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation

Sarah Bracking is Professor of Climate and Society in the School of Global Affairs, King’s College London, UKAurora Fredriksen is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester, UKSian Sullivan is Professor of Environment and Culture, Bath Spa University, UKPhilip Woodhouse is Professor of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, UK.

• List of figures and tablesList of contributorsAcknowledgements Introducing values that matter Sarah Bracking, Aurora Fredriksen, Sian Sullivan and Philip Woodhouse Value(s) and valuation in development, conservation and environment Sarah Bracking, Aurora Fredriksen, Sian Sullivan and Philip WoodhousePart 1: Development Assembling value for money in the UK Department for International Development Aurora Fredriksen The value of human life in health systems and social spaces: the HIV/AIDS context in Zimbabwe Fortunate Machingura Valuing infrastructure: competing financial and social valuations in the South Durban port expansion Sarah Bracking and Aurora FredriksenPart 2: Conservation Bonding nature(s)? Funds, financiers and values at the impact investing edge in environmental conservation Sian Sullivan Creating conservation values under DEFRA’s biodiversity offsetting pilot and the pragmatics of a using a calculative device Louise Emily Carver and Sian SullivanPart 3: Environment A crash in value: explaining the decline of the Clean Development Mechanism Robert Watt Climate changing civil society: The role of value and knowledge in designing the Green Climate FundJonas Amtoft Bruun Water values and the negotiation of water usePhil Woodhouse and Mike Muller ‘Some are more equal than others’: narratives of scarcity and the outcome of South Africa’s water reformRebecca Peters and Phil Woodhouse Conclusion: the limits of economic valuation Sarah Bracking, Aurora Fredriksen, Sian Sullivan and Philip WoodhouseIndex