What are heritage values? Integrating natural and cultural heritage into environmental valuation

Abstract

1. There are strong links between heritage and the environment yet, heritage is not fully included in existing ecosystem-based frameworks. Different understandings of heritage values exist, and heritage values are not yet related to key value categories in environmental values research. 2. To address this gap and facilitate a common values-based approach, we develop a novel framework that links heritage and environmental values. First, we expand the understanding of heritage values by linking heritage to key environmental value categories. We then use the Life Framework of Values to show how heritage features in the different ways in which people relate to the world. 3. The resulting heritage values framework is operationalised by applying it to six case examples drawn from participatory research on the governance of European coastal and maritime heritage.4. We found that the environment was not only considered to be a setting for heritage but was itself valued as heritage in different ways; that heritage is not extrinsic to the environment but is also a way in which people see meaning in the environment; and that multiple value frames and types were involved in shaping this perspective. The results highlight important discrepancies between stakeholders' perspectives and existing management approaches.

The Life Framework of Values and living as nature; towards a full recognition of holistic and relational ontologies

“…Whilst empirical work applying the framework has recently started appearing (O'Connor and Kenter 2019;Reed et al 2020;Harmáčková et al 2021;Kelly-Quinn et al 2022;Azzopardi et al 2022), Neuteleers et al (2020) have opened debate about how the framework was evolved from the original three frames described by O'Neill et al (2008) and how we interpreted intrinsic and relational values when defining the framework. In this paper, we respond to these comments, and in doing so re-instate the salience of the Life Framework as a straightforward way of organising environmental values compatible with diverse conceptual frameworks, including ecosystem Services (ES) and nature's contributions to people (NCP), whilst at the same time seeking to move beyond their ethical and ontological limitations in terms of anthropocentrism and dualism (Jax et al 2013;Silvertown 2015;Cooper et al 2016;Kopnina et al 2018;Kenter 2018;Kolinjivadi 2019;Muradian and Gómez-Baggethun 2021).…”

“…The Life Framework can also support communication and bridging of value concepts across different disciplines with diverse ontologies, providing a tool for epistemic brokerage. For example, Azzopardi et al (2022) use the Life Framework to bridge between the fields of heritage and environmental management.…”

Plural Nature(s): An Overview of Their Sociocultural Construction

“…Reflects the historical, cultural, and spiritual significance attached to specific landscapes, species, or ecosystems [69].…”

Digital social cultural heritage digital space study and exploration

“…According to the figure, it is more reasonable to divide keywords into keyword cluster modules for digitalizing cultural heritage and can be used as a research demonstration. Figure 3 shows 10 cluster groups, which are a cultural heritage (#0), digital (#1), museum (#2), inheritance (#3), digital humanities (#4), construction file (#5), archives (#6), traditional villages (#7), three -dimensional modeling (#8), non -heritage (#9), reflecting the study theory of the digitalization of cultural heritage in the past ten years mainly focuses on these ten keyword groups [6].…”