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Ecosystem services and the idea of shared values

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posted on 2023-09-01, 14:01 authored by Katherine N. Irvine, Liz O’Brien, Neil Ravenscroft, Nigel Cooper, Mark Everard, Ioan Fazey, Mark S. Reed, Jasper O. Kenter
Ecosystem services conceptualise the diverse values that ecosystems provide to humanity. This was recognised in the United Kingdom's National Ecosystem Assessment, which noted that appreciation of the full value of ecosystem services requires recognition of values that are shared. By operationalising the shared values concept, it is argued that the contribution of ecosystem services to human well-being can be represented more holistically. This paper considers current understanding of shared values and develops a new metanarrative of shared values beyond the aggregated utilities of individuals. This metanarrative seeks to conceptualise how values can be held both individually and communally, and what this means for identifying their scale and means of enumeration. The paper poses a new reading of the idea of shared values that reconciles the elicitation of preformed individual values with the formation and expression of shared social values. The implication is that shared values need to be conceived as normative constructs that are derived through social processes of value formation and expression. Shared values thus do not necessarily exist a priori; they can be deliberated through formal and informal processes through which individuals can separate their own preferences from a broader metanarrative about what values ought to be shared.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

21

Issue number

Part B

Page range

184-193

Publication title

Ecosystem Services

ISSN

2212-0416

Publisher

Elsevier

File version

  • Accepted version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2016-12-14

Legacy creation date

2016-12-13

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Science & Technology (until September 2018)

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