| Title: |
What are shared and social values of ecosystems? |
| Authors: |
Kenter, Jasper O.; O'Brien, Liz; Hockley, Neal; Ravenscroft, Neil; Fazey, Ioan; Irvine, Katherin N.; Reed, Mark S.; Christie, Michael; Brady, Emily; Bryce, Ros; Church, Andrew; Cooper, Nigel; Davies, Althea; Evely, Anna; Everard, Mark; Fish, Rob; Fisher, Janet A.; Jobstvogt, Niels; Molloy, Claire; Orchard-Webb, Johanne; Ranger, Sue; Ryan, Mandy; Watson, Verity; Williams, Susan |
| Contributors: |
Scottish Association for Marine Science; University of Aberdeen; Forest Research; Bangor University; University of Brighton; University of Dundee; James Hutton Institute; Birmingham City University; Aberystwyth University; University of Edinburgh; University of the Highlands and Islands; Anglia Ruskin University; Church of England; University of St Andrews; Project Maya; Pundamilia Ltd; University of Exeter; Edge Hill University; Marine Conservation Society; Natural Resources Wales |
| Publisher Information: |
Elsevier/International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) |
| Publication Year: |
2021 |
| Collection: |
University of Bedfordshire Repository |
| Subject Terms: |
shared values; ecosystem services; social values; total economic value; individual values; neoclassical economics; empirical evidence; ownership; Subject Categories::F810 Environmental Geography |
| Description: |
Social valuation of ecosystem services and public policy alternatives is one of the greatest challenges facing ecological economists today. Frameworks for valuing nature increasingly include shared/social values as a distinct category of values. However, the nature of shared/social values, as well as their relationship to other values, has not yet been clearly established and empirical evidence about the importance of shared/social values for valuation of ecosystem services is lacking. To help address these theoretical and empirical limitations, this paper outlines a framework of shared/social values across five dimensions: value concept, provider, intention, scale, and elicitation process. Along these dimensions we identify seven main, non-mutually exclusive types of shared values: transcendental, cultural/societal, communal, group, deliberated and other-regarding values, and value to society. Using a case study of a recent controversial policy on forest ownership in England, we conceptualise the dynamic interplay between shared/social and individual values. The way in which social value is assessed in neoclassical economics is discussed and critiqued, followed by consideration of the relation between shared/social values and Total Economic Value, and a review of deliberative and non-monetary methods for assessing shared/social values. We conclude with a discussion of the importance of shared/social values for decision-making. ; UK Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the Welsh Government, NERC, the Economic and Social Re-search Council (ESRC), and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) ; 0921-8009/© 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800915000191; http://hdl.handle.net/10547/625139; Ecological Economics |
| DOI: |
10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.01.006 |
| Availability: |
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/625139; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.01.006 |
| Rights: |
Green - can archive pre-print and post-print or publisher's version/PDF ; Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International ; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.78994D6B |
| Database: |
BASE |