How Long to Read Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation

How Long Does it Take to Read Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation?

It takes the average reader 4 hours to read Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation by Taylor & Francis Group

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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.

How long is Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation?

Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation by Taylor & Francis Group is 240 pages long, and a total of 60,000 words.

This makes it 81% the length of the average book. It also has 73% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 27 minutes to read Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation aloud.

What Reading Level is Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation?

Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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