Listening to relational values in the era of rapid environmental change in the Inuit Nunangat

Sheremata, Megan

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2018.10.017

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“…Brehm et al 2013) or landscape (e.g. ESF 2010) has facilitated growing recognition that landscape and environmental change influences human-nature connectedness as well as human relationships (Chan et al 2016;Sheremata 2018). Here, we argue that landscape simplification can cause erosion of relational values.…”

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The erosion of relational values resulting from landscape simplification

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Context The global trend of landscape simplification for industrial agriculture is known to cause losses in biodiversity and ecosystem service diversity. Despite these problems being widely known, status quo trajectories driven by global economic growth and changing diets continue to lead to further landscape simplification. Objectives In this perspective article, we argue that landscape simplification has negative consequences for a range of relational values, affecting the socialecological relationships between people and nature, as well as the social relationships among people. A focus Keywords Agricultural intensification Á Diversified farming Á Human-nature connections Á Landscape sustainability science Á Smallholder farming Á Socialecological systems Maraja Riechers and Joern Fischer have equally contributed to the development of this paper and can be contacted as corresponding authors.

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“…Relational values of nature reflect the manifold relationships between humans and nature and are rooted in these relationships themselves. Examples include social bonding (Sheremata 2018), care (Chan et al 2016), responsibility (Diver et al 2019), place attachment (Chan et al 2016), meaningful life , and spiritual or religious meanings (Knippenberg et al 2018).…”

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Relational values of nature: leverage points for nature policy in Europe

Mattijssen

Ganzevoort

Born

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Ecosystems and People

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Relational values reflect the qualities of the relationships between humans and nature, such as care, social bonding, place attachment and spiritual meanings. In this perspective article, we argue that understanding relational values is vital for nature conservation, and we identify how incorporation of these values may function as leverage points for achieving more effective nature policy. We discuss the distinctive features of the concept of relational values and elaborate how relational values strongly influence people's perceptions of, engagement with and action for nature. Relational values can also provide important deep leverage points for policy interventions aiming to support citizen's contribution to nature conservation, to strengthen biodiversity policy and the relationship between people and nature. Based on three realms of leverage (re-think, restructure and reconnect), we distinguish six routes through which relational values can be integrated in policies and practices of nature conservation: (1) incorporation of pluralized meanings of nature; (2) the uptake of relational language in policy discourse; (3) a prioritization of landscape-based policy; (4) empowering citizens in nature conservation; (5) reorienting nature education to stimulate people's personal bond with nature; and (6) using digital technology to stimulate new relationships with nature.

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“…Similarly, both agency and the right to self-determination have long been shown to be central to the construction of human wellbeing and are particularly important to relational wellbeing (Sen, 2007;Deneulin and McGregor, 2010;Breslow et al, 2017;Quimby and Levine, 2018;Sheremata, 2018). The importance of self-determination can be expressed as a relational value through the lens of governance and decision-making (Sheremata, 2018).…”

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Relationships Matter: Assessing the Impacts of a Marine Protected Area on Human Wellbeing and Relational Values in Southern Tanzania

Baker

Murray

Kaijage³

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Front. Mar. Sci.

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The push to meet global marine conservation targets has significantly increased the scope and scale of marine protected areas (MPAs) worldwide. While the benefits derived from MPA establishment are often optimistically framed as a “win-win” for both marine biodiversity and for the wellbeing of coastal peoples, this assumption is challenged for several reasons, including the fact that current science and practice frequently fails to account for the full impact of MPAs on human wellbeing. This context poses a danger that the context specific, place based aspects of wellbeing, like relations to others and the marine environment, will not be accounted for, examined, or reported in evaluation and decision-making processes. To address this challenge, this research investigates how MPA implementation can change and challenge the relational wellbeing and relational values of small-scale fishers (SSFs) living in Mnazi Bay-Ruvuma Estuary Marine Park, Tanzania. Fieldwork occurred over 2019–2020 and used qualitative data collection methods, including: 140 semi-structured interviews, document analysis, and observation. Results highlight a dynamic interaction between the MPA and SSFs relational wellbeing, including how relational values inform everyday fishing practices, cultural and place identities, as well as interactions with others and connections to the marine environment. Top-down approaches used in MPA development worked against key relational values, including social cohesion, reciprocity, place, agency and self-determination to dismantle and disrupt the practices SSFs viewed as fundamental to their livelihood and collective wellbeing. Our findings serve as a starting point to better recognize the context specific factors that underlie relational wellbeing and give insight into how relational values shape social-ecological complexity within coastal communities. The paper highlights how the international marine conservation community can better account for and foster relational wellbeing and relational values to achieve the goals of both human wellbeing and marine biodiversity conservation.

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Listening to relational values in the era of rapid environmental change in the Inuit Nunangat

Cited by 47 publications

References 32 publications

The erosion of relational values resulting from landscape simplification

The erosion of relational values resulting from landscape simplification

Relational values of nature: leverage points for nature policy in Europe

Relationships Matter: Assessing the Impacts of a Marine Protected Area on Human Wellbeing and Relational Values in Southern Tanzania

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