Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment
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In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), Vol. 113, No. 6, 09.02.2016, p. 1462-1465.
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T1 - Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment
AU - Chan, Kai M A
AU - Balvanera, Patricia
AU - Benessaiah, Karina
AU - Chapman, Mollie
AU - Díaz, Sandra
AU - Gómez-Baggethun, Erik
AU - Gould, Rachelle
AU - Hannahs, Neil
AU - Jax, Kurt
AU - Klain, Sarah
AU - Luck, Gary W
AU - Martín-López, Berta
AU - Muraca, Barbara
AU - Norton, Bryan
AU - Ott, Konrad
AU - Pascual, Unai
AU - Satterfield, Terre
AU - Tadaki, Marc
AU - Taggart, Jonathan
AU - Turner, Nancy
PY - 2016/2/9
Y1 - 2016/2/9
N2 - A cornerstone of environmental policy is the debate over protecting nature for humans’ sake (instrumental values) or for nature’s (intrinsic values) (1). We propose that focusing only on instrumental or intrinsic values may fail to resonate with views on personal and collective well-being, or “what is right,” with regard to nature and the environment. Without complementary attention to other ways that value is expressed and realized by people, such a focus may inadvertently promote worldviews at odds with fair and desirable futures. It is time to engage seriously with a third class of values, one with diverse roots and current expressions: relational values. By doing so, we reframe the discussion about environmental protection, and open the door to new, potentially more productive policy approaches.
AB - A cornerstone of environmental policy is the debate over protecting nature for humans’ sake (instrumental values) or for nature’s (intrinsic values) (1). We propose that focusing only on instrumental or intrinsic values may fail to resonate with views on personal and collective well-being, or “what is right,” with regard to nature and the environment. Without complementary attention to other ways that value is expressed and realized by people, such a focus may inadvertently promote worldviews at odds with fair and desirable futures. It is time to engage seriously with a third class of values, one with diverse roots and current expressions: relational values. By doing so, we reframe the discussion about environmental protection, and open the door to new, potentially more productive policy approaches.
KW - Sustainability Science
KW - ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
KW - CONSERVATION
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84957900465&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1073/pnas.1525002113
DO - 10.1073/pnas.1525002113
M3 - Comments / Debate / Reports
C2 - 26862158
VL - 113
SP - 1462
EP - 1465
JO - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA)
JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA)
SN - 0027-8424
IS - 6
ER -