Taking the debate on nature's value to the valuers [A follow on funding bid based upon the AHRC Research Network on 'Debating Nature's Value']

这个项目将对寻求数字捕捉自然价值的项目进行批判性辩论，这是学术界和一些从业者一直在进行的辩论，完全针对那些负责进行数字经济评估的人。我们将与那些负责提供一项新的关键政府政策的人进行接触，即对自然进行经济评估的政策，以期为该政策提供信息，并可能对其进行批评/修改。该项目是我们的研究网络关于同一主题的后续行动，通过与将在执行该政策中起关键作用的会计人员对话，将该网络中形成的想法直接提请议员和其他决策者注意。该项目将建立在讨论论文、书籍和学术论文的基础上，这些论文探索了“自然资本”作为一种评估和评估自然的模式的话语，这些话语来自研究网络。（这些包括我们网络的发现，部分在我们制作的“术语表”中具体化（https://www.anglia.ac.uk/global-sustainability-institute-gsi/research/global-risk-and-resilience/debating-natures-value/glossary-of-terms）。）这些已经存在的产出/资源将刺激我们在伦敦举办的一系列新讨论的开始，这些讨论将进一步围绕负责计算“自然资本”价值的英国会计师展开。关键的成果将是一份基于这些对话的报告，该报告将提交给议员和我们在DEFRA的高层联系人，包括迈克尔·戈夫。我们设想的时间表是现实的：[2018年12月]在拨款正式开始之前，网络成员之间以及与ICAEW的初步讨论和规划。2019年1月至8月论文、研讨会、简报文件；酌情与公务员、议员、部长分享临时文件。2019年9月至11月最终报告的制作2019年12月在“增长极限”和“农业生态学”小组的“查塔姆之家规则”特别会议上向议员们提交最终报告。该项目将由：Rupert Read博士（DNV网络PI）， Aled Jones教授（DNV网络Co-I）和Richard Spencer （ICAEW可持续发展负责人，自然资本联盟的关键人物）领导。项目细节是在ICAEW的密切合作下制定的，ICAEW将为研讨会提供房间，提供会员资格，并提供相关联系，包括与自然资本联盟的联系（目前在ICAEW总部，这对我们的目的很有帮助）。AHRC关于自然价值的辩论研究网络（这是一项后续资助投标）将许多学科——创造性艺术、哲学、神学、文学研究和环境人文学科——带入了一场传统上由经济学和生物物理科学主导的辩论。这次竞标揭示了艺术与人文学科对这个问题的独特贡献（通过类比，对各种类似的进一步问题也有贡献）。我们寻求在政策制定者对“自然资本”的理解和行为方面带来深思熟虑的改变；因此，我们试图说明这一点，以及我们的学科具体带来的那种b>问题是如何缺失的。这种根本性的问题——例如，将自然概念化为一种资本的隐喻和潜在的政治后果，或者将生态系统本质上为人类提供“服务”——是一种只有艺术和人文学科才能完成的问题。我们的项目展示了艺术和人文学科在权力走廊中的相关性和影响力；它展示了有时被视为“轻量级”或超凡脱俗的主题是如何被看到和感受到有影响力的，而且是独一无二的. ...而这一切都发生在（因为英国脱欧）这个（关键）问题历史上的关键时刻。

This project takes the critical debate on the project of seeking to numerically capture nature's value, a debate that has been occurring in the academy and with some practitioners, fully to those responsible for doing that numerical-economic valuation. We will engage with those responsible for delivering a new key government policy - that of the economic valuation of nature - with a view to informing and potentially critiquing/modifying that policy. The project follows up our Research Network on the same topic by bringing the ideas that were crystallized in that Network directly to the attention of Parliamentarians and other policy-makers, via dialogue with the accountants who will be key in the implementation of that policy.The project will build on the discussion papers, book and academic papers, which explored the discourse of 'natural capital' as a mode of valuing and evaluating nature that emerged from the Research Network. (These comprise the findings of our Network, partly crystallised in the 'Glossary of terms' we produced (https://www.anglia.ac.uk/global-sustainability-institute-gsi/research/global-risk-and-resilience/debating-natures-value/glossary-of-terms ).)These already-existing outputs/ resources will stimulate the beginning of a series of new discussions that we will host in London and that will cascade further around the UK's accountants who will be responsible for computing the value of "natural capital". The key deliverable will be a report based on these dialogues that will be presented to Parliamentarians and to our top-level contacts at DEFRA, including Michael Gove.The timetable we envisage is realistic: [Dec 2018 Initial discussions and planning amongst network members and with ICAEW, prior to the grant's official start.]Jan to Aug 2019 Papers, seminars, briefing document; interim documents shared where appropriate with civil servants, Parliamentarians, Ministers.Sept to Nov 2019 Production of final reportDec 2019 Presentation of final report to Parliamentarians at a special 'Chatham House rule' meeting of the 'Limits to Growth' and 'Agroecology' APPGs. The project will be led by: Dr Rupert Read (PI (of the DNV network)), Prof Aled Jones (Co-I (of the DNV network)), and Richard Spencer (Head of Sustainability at the ICAEW, and a key player in the Natural Capital Coalition).The project details have been developed in close collaboration with ICAEW, which will provide rooms for the seminars, access to its membership, and relevant contacts, including with the Natural Capital Coalition (currently based, helpfully for our purposes, at ICAEW HQ).The AHRC Research Network on Debating Nature's Value to which this is a Follow-on-Funding bid brought a number of academic disciplines - the creative arts, philosophy, theology, literary studies and environmental humanities - into a debate traditionally dominated by economics and biophysical sciences. This bid reveals the way in which the Arts & Humanities have something unique to contribute to this issue (and, by analogy, to various similar further issues). We seek to bring about a thoughtful change in policy-makers' understanding and conduct with regard to 'natural capital'; and we seek thereby to illustrate that and how the kind of >questioning< that our disciplines bring concretely to bear is otherwise missing. This kind of fundamental questioning - e.g., of the metaphorical and potential political consequences of conceptualising nature as a kind of capital, or of ecosystems as essentially providing human beings with 'services' - is of a kind that only Arts and Humanities accomplish. Our project shows the relevance and influence of Arts and Humanities in the corridors of power; it shows how subjects that are sometimes seen as 'lightweight' or other-worldly can be seen and felt to be influential, and uniquely so. ...And all this, at what is (because of Brexit) a crucial moment in the history of this (crucial) issue.