Playing with Boundaries: Critical Reflections on Strategies for an Environmental Culture and the Promise of Civic Environmentalism

King, Roger

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“… 2018 ). The definition is consistent with biocentric worldviews (King 2006 , Batavia and Nelson 2017 , Piccolo 2017 ) and aims at bridging subjective (people attributing intrinsic value to nature) and objective (value existing in nature regardless of people's attribution) understandings of value. To account for perspectives insisting on the objective nature of values, we added to the definition a reference to the understanding of intrinsic values as the value of entities that are worth protecting as ends in themselves.…”

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“…Intrinsic values are strongly and often explicitly associated with nonanthropocentric worldviews (Kahn 1997 , Freemuth 2001 , King 2006 , Gilbert et al. 2009 ).…”

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“…Justifications based on instrumental and intrinsic values often overlap when sentient animals are seen as ends in themselves and reducing their suffering could be justified under a utilitarian framework as instrumentally good for them (Rolston 1993 , King 2006 , Harrop 2013 ). In other instances, relational and subjective intrinsic value (something is important for someone for its own sake) or intrinsic value defined negatively as noninstrumental might be hard to distinguish.…”

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Why nature matters: A systematic review of intrinsic, instrumental, and relational values

Himes,

Muraca,

Anderson

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BioScience

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In this article, we present results from a literature review of intrinsic, instrumental, and relational values of nature conducted for the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, as part of the Methodological Assessment of the Diverse Values and Valuations of Nature. We identify the most frequently recurring meanings in the heterogeneous use of different value types and their association with worldviews and other key concepts. From frequent uses, we determine a core meaning for each value type, which is sufficiently inclusive to serve as an umbrella over different understandings in the literature and specific enough to help highlight its difference from the other types of values. Finally, we discuss convergences, overlapping areas, and fuzzy boundaries between different value types to facilitate dialogue, reduce misunderstandings, and improve the methods for valuation of nature's contributions to people, including ecosystem services, to inform policy and direct future research.

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“…Intrinsic values are strongly and often explicitly associated with nonanthropocentric worldviews (Kahn 1997 , Freemuth 2001 , King 2006 , Gilbert et al. 2009 ).…”

Section: Findings From the Literaturementioning

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Section: Findings From the Literaturementioning

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“…Far from being a product of community consensus, the process for determining the trail's alignment revealed the diversity of opinion and appreciation for the various conceptions of the hybrid landscape as a collective resource. And the ensuing disagreements are a reminder that deliberative democracy does not guarantee consensus; some issues will always be contentious and intractable (Dryzek, 2000;King, 2006).…”

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The Civics of Urban Nature: Enacting Hybrid Landscapes

Karvonen

Yocom

2011

Environ Plan A

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Urban nature is typically managed through top-down, bureaucratic, and expert-driven approaches that tend to rationalize and simplify the interactions between humans and their surroundings. In the last few decades, there has been a significant push in cultural geography and the design disciplines to develop a relational ontology of urban nature, a perspective that emphasizes the hybrid connections between humans and nonhumans, built and unbuilt, social and natural. This perspective offers new and exciting ways of conceptualizing urban nature but it has not produced alternatives to technomanagerial governance. In other words, thinking differently about urban nature has yet to produce different ways of interacting with it. In this article, we argue that civic environmentalism offers promise for enacting a relational ontology by engaging urban residents in processes of democratic deliberation and action in the reworking of urban nature. We illustrate this approach with a case study of a communityled project to construct a pedestrian trail along an urban creek in Seattle, Washington. The example demonstrates how the concept of civic environmentalism embraces a relational perspective of urban nature while also producing generative forms of political action that provide opportunities for integrating relational thinking with deliberative forms of local environmental governance.

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Reconciling Hungry Spirits in the Ecological Emergency

Weir¹

2023

Sustainable Development Goals Series

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Playing with Boundaries: Critical Reflections on Strategies for an Environmental Culture and the Promise of Civic Environmentalism

Cited by 13 publications

References 5 publications

Why nature matters: A systematic review of intrinsic, instrumental, and relational values

Why nature matters: A systematic review of intrinsic, instrumental, and relational values

The Civics of Urban Nature: Enacting Hybrid Landscapes

Reconciling Hungry Spirits in the Ecological Emergency

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