Valuation of nature and nature’s contributions to people

Managi, Shunsuke; Islam, Moinul; Saito, Osamu; Stenseke, Marie; Dziba, Luthando; Pascual, Unai; Hashimoto, Shizuka

doi:10.1007/s11625-019-00732-6

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“…The destruction of living nature [33] presents an even more severe crisis because people vitally depend on ecosystems [34,35]. Moreover, we can consider humanity to have a moral obligation to protect nature [36].…”

Section: Cops and Crisesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decision Change: The First Step to System Change

Bomans,

Roessingh

2024

Sustainability

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Global crises, such as climate change and ecological collapse, require changes in systemic factors that cause the crises. These factors include the economy, population growth, and decision-making in global affairs. Current decision-making processes have failed to accomplish the required system change, necessitating a change to these processes (‘decision change’) for meaningful progress. The key question is how a procedure for deciding on the required system change should be designed in this setting. In this essay, we propose a three-step approach. First, independent experts in collective decision-making should design this procedure under monitoring by auxiliary bodies that safeguard the design process; second, proposals for system change should be collected; third, based on these proposals, system change should be designed and decided upon using the new decision-making procedure. We argue that authority can be given to the new decision-making body that decides on system change. A global team must convene the decision-making experts and auxiliary bodies, collect system-change proposals, and guarantee that the decision-making process is facilitated. We call on individuals and independent organisations to form such a team or support its formation.

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Decision Change: The First Step to System Change

Bomans,

Roessingh

2024

Sustainability

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“…The destruction of living nature [75] presents an even more severe crisis because people vitally depend on ecosystems [31,94]. Moreover, we can consider humanity to have a moral obligation to protect nature [112].…”

Section: Cops and Crisesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decision Change: The First Step to System Change

Bomans,

Roessingh

2023

Preprint

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Global crises, such as climate change and ecological collapse, require changes in systemic factors that cause the crises. These factors include the economy, population growth, and decision-making in global affairs. Current decision-making processes have failed to accomplish the required system change, necessitating a change to these processes (‘decision change’) for meaningful progress. The key question is how a procedure for deciding on the required system change should be designed in this setting. We propose a three-step approach. First, independent experts in collective decision-making should design this procedure under monitoring by auxiliary bodies that safeguard the design process; second, proposals for system change should be collected; third, based on these proposals, system change should be designed and decided upon using the new decision-making procedure. We argue that authority can be given to the new decision-making body that decides on system change. A global team must convene the decision-making experts and auxiliary bodies, collect system-change proposals, and guarantee that the decision-making process is facilitated. We call on individuals and independent organisations to form such a team or support its formation.

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“…The forthcoming IPBES Values Assessment has pluralism at its core, as discussed in Díaz et al (2015), as does the parallel, intertwined concept of the multiple values of nature. Multiple values of nature concept seeks to unite diverse value types and forms of value and value expression (Hakkarainen et al, 2020; Managi et al, 2019; Rawluk et al, 2019) to ensure equitable, representative decision‐making (Jacobs et al, 2018).…”

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‘Hey, tree. You are my friend’: Assessing multiple values of nature through letters to trees

Marquina

Gould

Murdoch³

2022

People and Nature

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The values associated with nature are a central component of human–nature interactions, but their assessment remains a challenge. In this exploratory research, we examine the potential of a creative data collection method to elucidate the multiple values of nature. We invited visitors to a natural area to write letters to non‐human elements of the ecosystem (trees), then analysed the letters to determine whether they provide information about values. This project involves collaboration with the Intervale Center in Burlington, VT, U.S.A., a peri‐urban site with both forest and farmland. We received 45 letters from 25 letter writers. The majority of letter writers discussed relational values associated with trees or benefits from ecosystem services that trees provide to humans and non‐humans. Others asked questions about natural elements at the Intervale Center. We explored whether the letter writing method, which invites (although does not require) a more interpersonal approach to communicating with non‐humans, might facilitate the expression of relational values. Our findings support this assertion. We found that people expressed diverse relational values towards nature and asked many questions (mostly ecological) about the site and tree species. We encourage future work to consider data collection instruments that provide opportunities for diverse ways of conceiving of human–nature relationships (especially, as in this case, ways more conducive to personhood as not confined to humans). Benefits of this project include an unconventional framing of human–nature relationships (i.e. one that invites but does not require expanded notions of personhood), the open‐ended nature of the prompt, relatively low costs and flexibility in when and how participants respond. Drawbacks include convenience sampling (and low response rates) and poor accessibility to people who do not read English. We conclude that letter writing method has the potential to elicit data about multiple values of nature, as well as create an engaging experience for visitors of natural areas. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Valuation of nature and nature’s contributions to people

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Decision Change: The First Step to System Change

Decision Change: The First Step to System Change

Decision Change: The First Step to System Change

‘Hey, tree. You are my friend’: Assessing multiple values of nature through letters to trees

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