Relational values help explain green infrastructure preferences: The case of managing crane habitat in Hokkaido, Japan

Kim, Hyerin; Shoji, Yasushi; Tsuge, Takahiro; Kubo, Takahiro; Nakamura, Futoshi

doi:10.1002/pan3.10231

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“…Relational values are about, or based on, meaning‐saturated relationships (Chan et al, 2018) and represent preferences, principles and virtues associated with interpersonal relationships with ‘nature’ and with others, that make a good life (Chan et al, 2016). In places such as coasts, which are ‘always in the process of becoming through heterogeneous interrelations’ (Leyshon, 2018: 155), focusing on relationships between people and place is particularly important, and recent research has shown that relational values are useful in decision‐making around wetland management in particular (Bataille et al, 2021; Kim et al, 2021).…”

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‘This funny place’: Uncovering the ambiguity of saltmarshes using a multimodal approach

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Saltmarshes are increasingly recognised for the range of benefits they offer, including coastal protection, flood regulation and carbon sequestration. However, much less is known about how people perceive these environments and their importance for non‐material aspects of human well‐being. As climate change and sea‐level rise render these environments increasingly vulnerable, there is a need to better understand how saltmarshes are valued. This is because these values influence—and are influenced by—the ways in which people interact with places and therefore gain well‐being benefits from them. These values also shape management decisions, which in turn affect the well‐being of people and environment. To address this need, we use a multimodal qualitative approach (mobile interviews, photo elicitations, mapping and word association) to explore the values held in connection to saltmarshes at two Welsh case study sites: the Taf Estuary in Carmarthenshire and the Mawddach Estuary in Gwynedd. We find that saltmarshes are ambiguous places, not having one obvious meaning, and being open to more than one interpretation. They are both known and unknown; valued and (literally) overlooked. We suggest that this ambiguousness is related to both the physical characteristics of saltmarshes, which change and shift on short and long time‐scales, as well as to the ways in which people (can) relate with them. We discuss how ambiguity renders saltmarshes as places of exclusive, privileged human–nature relationships, and reflect on the implications of our findings for human well‐being and the management of threatened environments. We also consider how multimodal, in‐depth and place‐based methods such as ours provide ways in which to explore the more intangible and changeable values associated with particular habitats. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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“…These studies developed original survey items to measure relational values (e.g. Klain et al, 2017; Saito et al, 2021), compared values held by urban and rural community members (Bashan et al, 2021), mapped the values of various ecosystem services across landscapes (Garcia‐Diez et al, 2020), compared benefits of forest management approaches among instrumental and relational values (Himes et al, 2020), explored the mechanics of how people form relational values in specific ecosystems (Flood et al, 2021), and used the relational values concept to re‐analyse results from a survey designed to elicit economic values associated with bird habitat (Kim et al, 2021).…”

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“…in items that emphasize participants' relationships to various natural contexts). Kim et al (2021) used relational values to re‐assess results from a choice experiment that were not fully explained by neoclassical economic theory. Himes et al (2020) assessed trade‐offs among various forest ecosystem services, and they used relational values to capture the values of those ES on different societal scales.…”

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Relational values of nature in empirical research: A systematic review

Pratson,

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Gould

2023

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In the past 5 years, scholarly and policy attention to relational values, a concept that articulates plural values of nature, has grown steadily. To date, there are no published syntheses of empirical research that explicitly addresses relational values. We perform a systematic literature review of n = 72 empirical studies of relational values to summarize the state of current research and to identify opportunities for future research and conceptual development. In our analysis, we categorize what authors identify as relational values and summarize study characteristics (e.g. study location, methods approach). Authors collectively report n = 312 unique relational values. Categories of identity, social cohesion, livelihoods, connection to place/human–nature connection and sacred are most common. Scholarship that explicitly addresses relational values has increased since 2017 and exhibits substantial diversity: in how relational values are conceptualized (or not); in disciplinary associations; in geographical location and in data collection methods. We find that most empirical research on relational values does not justify how its results reflect characteristics that establish the relational values concept as unique from other environmental values concepts. As a result, diverse interpretations of the relational values concept pose the risk of the relational values concept being so broad and inclusive that it becomes meaningless, or at least meaning‐light. Policy implications. Understanding why and how nature matters to people is critical to inform effective and just conservation. Relational values can offer nuanced perspectives on the significance associated with people–nature relationships. We argue that empirical relational values research that grounds itself in the concept's ‘core’ characteristics can foster conceptual coherence and bolster the relevance of research findings to sustainability and conservation science. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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“…This establishes the proportions of people with specific preferences. Such information is also useful when considering consensus building over green infrastructures [43].…”

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Using a Choice Experiment to Understand Preferences for Disaster Risk Reduction with Uncertainty: A Case Study in Japan

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With the increase in disasters due to climate change, there has been a growing interest in green infrastructures that utilize nature for disaster risk reduction (DRR). However, green infrastructures cannot completely protect against hazards. Therefore, this study investigates the public preference in Japan for DRR and its uncertainty using a survey-based choice experiment. The results showed that benefits were obtained from the increase in “success probability”, “reduction in human damage”, “reduction in property damage”, and “reduction in indirect damage”; however, the benefits obtained from additional improvements diminished. Moreover, the results of our analyses revealed that preferences for DRR and its uncertainty were heterogeneous among respondents, and the population segment that includes more women, older people, and more people who live in areas that may be directly affected by floods had higher ratings for “success probability” and relatively slightly lower ratings for “reduction in indirect damage”.

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Relational values help explain green infrastructure preferences: The case of managing crane habitat in Hokkaido, Japan

Abstract: This is an open access article under the terms of the Creat ive Commo ns Attri bution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Cited by 10 publications

References 37 publications

‘This funny place’: Uncovering the ambiguity of saltmarshes using a multimodal approach

‘This funny place’: Uncovering the ambiguity of saltmarshes using a multimodal approach

Relational values of nature in empirical research: A systematic review

Using a Choice Experiment to Understand Preferences for Disaster Risk Reduction with Uncertainty: A Case Study in Japan

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