What's Nature Worth

Name: What's Nature Worth
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By: Scott Slovic

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Paperback | 29 May 2004

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BASED ON EITHER WRITTEN or oral interviews with a dozen prominent environmental writers, "What's Nature Worth? explores how the art of storytelling might bring new perspectives and insights to economic and policy discussions regarding the "value" of nature and the environment. The diverse points of view explored, and the writers' insistence on careful interpretation, demonstrate that environmental values are complex, rich, and deeply felt--far more so than mainstream economic methodology would have us believe. There is general consensus among the contributors that the narrative form allows for an exploration of the richness of what it means to "value" nature without being preachy or didactic. Following interviews with the twelve authors, examples of their work demonstrate how indirect expressions of value, in the words of Alison Hawthorne Deming, have an "emotional hue" that can replenish the energy depleted by the coldness of cost-benefit arguments.

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"A fascinating collection of interviews and essays that examine how contemporary writers seek to express the inexpressible, to convey the values in nature 'as yet uncaptured by language, ' as Aldo Leopold once put it. Whether and how this mode of expression can inform public policy debates, as well as transform individual consciousness, is the subject of this innovative, interdisciplinary, and ultimately invaluable book."--Daniel J. Philippon, author of Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Movement "Ambitious, groundbreaking....What's Nature Worth? will broaden and deepen the ways in which social and policy scientists think about and measure environmental values. It will bring the ways researchers deal with values more in line with the way people deal with values in their everyday lives."--Timothy Earle, Western Washington University "What an original, brilliant, and simple idea! Satterfield and Slovic interview environmental writers about values, ethics, and narrative expression. By allowing the voices of the writers to emerge, this book shows how environmental literature can inform, indeed, transform environmental values discourse."--Mitchell Thomashow, author of Bringing the Biosphere Home

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: What's Nature Worth?	p. 1
Inciting Story: Narrative as the Mirror of Audience Values	p. 18
Questionnaire Responses from William Kittredge	p. 23
Selected Writings
Excerpt from Who Owns the West?	p. 30
A Saving Light	p. 32
Advice and Counsel: Respecting the Sources of Wisdom	p. 34
A Conversation with Simon J. Ortiz	p. 37
Selected Writings
Men on the Moon	p. 51
Yuusthiwa	p. 59
Where the Power Lies: Seeking the Intuitive Language of Story	p. 61
A Conversation with Terry Tempest Williams	p. 63
Selected Writings
Statement Before the Senate Subcommittee on Forest & Public Lands Management Regarding the Utah Public Lands Management Act of 1995, Washington, D.C., 13 July 1995	p. 77
Bloodlines	p. 80
Beyond Here Lie Only Dragons: Thoughts on Wild Places and Vigorous Language	p. 82
A Conversation with Gregory McNamee	p. 84
Selected Writings
A Review of Consuming Desires: Consumption, Culture, and the Pursuit of Happiness	p. 97
Yaak and the Unknowable World	p. 98
Story as Common Ground	p. 101
A Conversation with Alison Hawthorne Deming	p. 103
Selected Writings
Getting Beyond Elegy: Nature, Culture, and Art	p. 112
Excerpt from The Monarchs	p. 124
Making Stories out of Everything: Valuing the Ordinary	p. 128
A Conversation with Ofelia Zepeda	p. 131
Selected Writings
B'o e-a:g Mas'ab Him g Ju:ki	p. 143
It Is Going to Rain	p. 144
Kitchen Sink	p. 144
Lard for Moisturizer	p. 144
The Building Blocks of Storied Expression: Advice from a Teacher of Writing	p. 146
Questionnaire Responses from Richard Shelton	p. 148
Selected Writings
Requiem for Sonora	p. 158
Sonora for Sale	p. 159
From Image to Event: Considering the Relations between Poetry and Prose as Conveyors of Environmental Values	p. 160
A Conversation with John Daniel	p. 163
Selected Writings
Remembering the Sacred Family	p. 175
Ourselves	p. 185
Photo and Word: The Power of Suggestion in Visual and Verbal "Language"	p. 186
A Conversation with Stephen Trimble	p. 188
Selected Writings
A Wilderness Photographer in Marlboro Country	p. 199
Excerpt from The Sagebrush Ocean	p. 201
Packing Information in the Form of Story: Viewing Narrative from the Perspective of Science	p. 204
A Conversation with Robert Michael Pyle	p. 206
Selected Writings
The Extinction Of Experience	p. 222
Spark-Infested Waters	p. 232
Telling It Slant: The Value of Narrative Indirection	p. 234
Questionnaire Responses from Bruce Berger	p. 236
Selected Writings
Heat	p. 242
The Mysterious Brotherhood	p. 243
Thriving on Ambiguity: Latency, Indirection, and Narrative	p. 247
A Conversation with Gary Paul Nabhan	p. 250
Selected Writings
Hornworm's Home Ground: Conserving Interactions	p. 262
A Concluding Conversation	p. 272
Notes	p. 287
Bibliography	p. 291
About the Editors	p. 303
Index	p. 307
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