From Ecological Politics to Intrinsic Value: An Examination of Kovel's Value Theory

Nature Is Beyond Value Because We Are Part of Nature

“…(Kovel 2014, 19) Developing an intrinsic value to nature may offer ways out of the use-value impasse, but the concept has been critiqued on several grounds. Peterson (2010) claims that Kovel confuses values of goods and values as morals. A solution would be to take the matter as a need for individuals' "transformation of vision" (100).…”

The Positioned Construction of Water Values: Pluralism, Positionality and Praxis

“…Values are derived from the familiarity and the intricate access to resources which take place through the broad range of 'person-thing' relations (Reno, 2009). one major shortcoming of the discussion on values has been the tendency to be formalistic, rather than context-centred, that is to say, values exist like problems that engage the individuals in a community in cognitive, emotional and practical ways (Peterson, 2010). Perhaps the economic and anthropological readings of value can be ensembled together as a synthesis that evidentiates the profound political ecology of water valuation.…”