However practice, policymaking, planning and management is typically focused on more tangible valued attributes of the landscape such as biodiversity and recreation infrastructure that can be manipulated by management actions.
New programs and tools are shifting the conversation from magic numbers to more tangible current value equivalent, using base case, and best case, scenarios for income, saving, spending and capital markets.
Do you value experiences like going out for dinner or do you value more tangible things like new clothes?
But I suspect there's NCD -- nontrivial cognitive dissonance -- between Romney's portrait of the economy and many people's experience of it, especially around some of the more tangible aspects like housing values and mortgage rates.
As careers advisers, we still ascribe meaning and value to the more tangible services – appointments, workshops and fairs – but the role has evolved.
Unlike more tangible, physical assets, he said, the value of those property rights could be transferred around the globe, often with just a few keyboard strokes.
But it seems the appetite for straightforward human interaction with tangible value is growing once more.
Without fundamental moral rules protecting intellectual work products in a manner equivalent to more tangible goods or money, the work loses value.
Replace "data" with the word "dollars" and the value exchange becomes a lot more tangible.
Real estate agents and appraisers agree, though, that an interesting provenance doesn't necessarily translate into higher property values the way that something more tangible like outdoor space or a full-time doorman does.
