Social values and sustainability: a retrospective view on the contribution of economics

Massenberg, Julian R.

doi:10.1007/s11625-019-00693-w

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“…Finally, the recreationists of both case study areas attached great importance to the recreation potential and other cultural ecosystem services, not for economic reasons, but to enjoy their leisure time. Deviations regarding the valuation of ecosystem services' importance also existed within stakeholder groups, because personal experiences and self-interest shape individual values and interests in ecosystem services (Massenberg 2019). In our case, the farmers and foresters were the group with the most common interests, while other groups had more diverging interests.…”

Section: Differences and Similarities Of Stakeholders Perspectives Onmentioning

confidence: 66%

“…Moreover, the averaged weightings per stakeholder group were generally high, suggesting that all stakeholder groups recognize the value of maintaining multiple ecosystem services in a landscape and suggesting an awareness of the different land uses and the resulting goods and services (García-Llorente et al 2012). One reason for this shared appreciation of multifunctionality could be that the different stakeholders have been socialized within the same environment and culture, which has influenced and shaped common values and interests (Massenberg 2019). For example, the two landscapes studied here are very well known as recreational areas and for providing natural habitats, but not necessarily for timber production.…”

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Including stakeholders’ perspectives on ecosystem services in multifunctionality assessments

Hölting

Komossa

Filyushkina

et al. 2020

Ecosystems and People

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Multifunctional landscapes are used and shaped by a range of different stakeholders. The high number of diverging values, interests or demands in such landscapes can lead to conflicts that impact sustainability goals. In this study, our aim was to include stakeholders' valuations of ecosystem services in multifunctionality assessments and thereby to identify different and possibly contradictory perspectives on landscape multifunctionality. Two European cultural landscapes, the Vereinigte Mulde (Germany) and the Kromme Rijn (The Netherlands), were used as case studies. Spatially explicit indicators of eleven ecosystem services were assessed and weighted according to their survey-based perceived importance for different stakeholder groups. While some significant differences between the groups were apparent, the results also revealed that all stakeholder groups acknowledge the importance of multiple ecosystem services. Stakeholder-specific multifunctionality hotspots occurred mainly in forests or grasslands and largely overlapped between the groups. Our study therefore clearly shows that the diversity of ecosystem services must be preserved in order to preserve the values that cultural landscapes offer to a wide range of people. While local solutions must be sought to resolve local land use conflicts over the use of ecosystem services, we conclude that multifunctionality can be declared a common goal.

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Section: Differences and Similarities Of Stakeholders Perspectives Onmentioning

confidence: 66%

Section: Differences and Similarities Of Stakeholders Perspectives Onmentioning

confidence: 99%

Including stakeholders’ perspectives on ecosystem services in multifunctionality assessments

Hölting

Komossa

Filyushkina

et al. 2020

Ecosystems and People

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“…They argue that, to ensure the procedural justice of valuation, the interests of non-humans need to be directly articulated, and such values demand more inclusive value taxonomies, such as encapsulated by the Life Framework. Massenberg (2019), in part, critiques economic theories relating issues of distribution, power and justice. He points to economic theories that could better account for externalities and power relations, and the environmental and societal effects caused by production and distribution.…”

Section: Power Matters In the Formation And Assessment Of Social Valuesmentioning

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Editorial overview: theoretical traditions in social values for sustainability

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This special feature provides an impression of the plurality of social values for sustainability, taking into account theoretical traditions within mainstream and heterodox economics; positive, social and environmental psychology; human geography; anthropology; sociology; religious and indigenous studies and business management. Papers in this issue respond to questions of: how do we conceptualise social values; how do we integrate or share social values; what are processes for learning about and mechanisms for forming and changing social values; and what are the associations between social values and behaviour or well-being? Consistent with post-normal science, we suggest that there is no one correct way of conceptualising, assessing, integrating or activating social values for sustainability. We present five arguments: (1) the plurality of social values can be conceptualised along many different dimensions, with reference to value, epistemic and procedural lenses; (2) values are nested in different hierarchies, resulting in the potential for different forms of value articulations and pathways of value expression; (3) not all social values are pre-formed and readily drawn upon, instead needing pathways of deliberation or intervention to be activated; (4) social values may change through different processes or pathways of intervention, and; (5) power matters in the formation and assessment of social values. We discuss the tensions that arise when attempting to integrate different perspectives and introduce the notion of 'navigation' to begin to address these tensions. Navigation requires scholars to adopt a more critical and reflexive approach to value enquiry than is currently espoused in sustainability science and practice.

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“…Other meta-lenses are critical and emancipatory (O'Connor and Kenter 2019; Ravenscroft 2019). Finally, some are themselves associated with studying how meta-lenses are adopted in valuation institutions (Rawluk et al 2019;Horcea-Milcu et al 2019;Massenberg 2019).…”

Section: Social Value Lenses and Dimensions Of Social Valuesmentioning

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Loving the mess: navigating diversity and conflict in social values for sustainability

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This paper concludes a special feature of Sustainability Science that explores a broad range of social value theoretical traditions, such as religious studies, social psychology, indigenous knowledge, economics, sociology, and philosophy. We introduce a novel transdisciplinary conceptual framework that revolves around concepts of 'lenses' and 'tensions' to help navigate value diversity. First, we consider the notion of lenses: perspectives on value and valuation along diverse dimensions that describe what values focus on, how their sociality is envisioned, and what epistemic and procedural assumptions are made. We characterise fourteen of such dimensions. This provides a foundation for exploration of seven areas of tension, between: (1) the values of individuals vs collectives; (2) values as discrete and held vs embedded and constructed; (3) value as static or changeable; (4) valuation as descriptive vs normative and transformative; (5) social vs relational values; (6) different rationalities and their relation to value integration; (7) degrees of acknowledgment of the role of power in navigating value conflicts. In doing so, we embrace the 'mess' of diversity, yet also provide a framework to organise this mess and support and encourage active transdisciplinary collaboration. We identify key research areas where such collaborations can be harnessed for sustainability transformation. Here it is crucial to understand how certain social value lenses are privileged over others and build capacity in decision-making for understanding and drawing on multiple value, epistemic and procedural lenses.

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Social values and sustainability: a retrospective view on the contribution of economics

Cited by 20 publications

References 48 publications

Including stakeholders’ perspectives on ecosystem services in multifunctionality assessments

Including stakeholders’ perspectives on ecosystem services in multifunctionality assessments

Editorial overview: theoretical traditions in social values for sustainability

Loving the mess: navigating diversity and conflict in social values for sustainability

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