Incorporating diverse values of nature in decision-making-theory and practice.

Vatn, A; Pascual, U; Chaplin-Kramer, R; Termansen, M; Arias-Arévalo, P; Balvanera, P; Athayde, S; Hahn, T; Lazos, E (2024). Incorporating diverse values of nature in decision-making-theory and practice. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 379(1903) Royal Society of London 10.1098/rstb.2022.0315

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Values play a significant role in decision-making, especially regarding nature. Decisions impact people and nature in complex ways and understanding which values are prioritised, and which are left out is an important task for improving the equity and effectiveness of decision-making. Based on work done for the IPBES Values Assessment, this paper develops a framework to support analyses of how decision-making influences nature as well as whose values get prioritised. The framework is used to analyse key areas of environmental policy: a) the present model for nature protection in market economies, b) the role of valuation in bringing nature values into decisions, and c) values embedded in environmental policy instruments, exemplified by protected areas for nature conservation and payments for ecosystem services. The analyses show that environmental policies have been established as mere additions to decision-making structures that foster economic expansion, which undermines a wide range of nature's values. Moreover, environmental policies themselves are also focused on a limited set of nature's diverse values. This article is part of the theme issue 'Bringing nature into decision-making'.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Ecology and Evolution (IEE)

Subjects:

500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology

ISSN:

1471-2970

Publisher:

Royal Society of London

Language:

English

Submitter:

Pubmed Import

Date Deposited:

22 Apr 2024 09:54

Last Modified:

23 Apr 2024 07:32

Publisher DOI:

10.1098/rstb.2022.0315

PubMed ID:

38643788

Uncontrolled Keywords:

IPBES decision-making environmental policy institutions nature's values power

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/196140

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/196140

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