The missing pillar: Eudemonic values in the justification of nature conservation

Born, R.J.G. van den; Arts, B.J.M.; Admiraal, Jeroen; Beringer, Almut; Knights, Paul; Molinario, Erica; Horvat, Katarina Polajnar; Porras-Gomez, Carmen; Smrekar, Aleš; Soethe, Nathalie; Pol, José Luis Vivero; Ganzevoort, Wessel; Bonaiuto, Marino; Knippenberg, L.W.J.; Groot, W.T. de

doi:10.1080/09640568.2017.1342612

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“…In our study, we expected a positive correlation between RV and the appreciation items and between RV and the preservation items because all three are potential motivators for people to conserve nature (Wiseman and Bogner, 2003;Van den Born et al, 2017;Bogner, 2018). The calculated Pearson correlation coefficient between RVs and appreciation for nature almost showed a high effect (r = 0.469).…”

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Exploring the Construct of Relational Values: An Empirical Approach

Kleespies

Dierkes

2020

Front. Psychol.

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In recent environmental research, relational values (RVs) have emerged as a new group of values to explain environmental behavior. Although this new concept is attracting attention, empirical studies on the subject are still rare. On this basis, we have conducted three studies to analyze an existing measurement tool for RVs and compared the construct with the concept of connection to nature. In study 1, we confirmed convergent and discriminant validity of the RV scale by comparing it with the Two Factor Model of Environmental Values (2-MEV) model using a sample of n = 350 university students. Additionally, study 1 verified reliability using test-retest reliability on three different groups of students (n 1 = 53; n 2 = 37; n 3 = 48). In study 2, principal component analyses were performed to examine the structure of RVs and to compare it to the concept of connection to nature by reusing the sample 350 university students from study 1. The results show that RVs and connection to nature are not fundamentally distinct constructs, but overlap. However, if the structure of the RV measurement is forced to a single factor, no perfect fit is found, making a multidimensional solution more likely. A third study was conducted to review the results from study 2 using confirmatory factor analysis on a new sample of 878 university and high school students. Study 3 confirmed RVs as a multidimensional construct with three factors: care, community, and connection. It also proved the overlap of the connection to nature and RV concepts to some extent. Keywords: relational values, connectedness to nature, connectedness to nature scale, scale validation, environmental behavior, two factor model of environmental values model Frontiers in Psychology | www.frontiersin.org Frontiers in Psychology | www.frontiersin.org

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Section: Convergent and Discriminant Validitymentioning

confidence: 77%

Exploring the Construct of Relational Values: An Empirical Approach

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Dierkes

2020

Front. Psychol.

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“…Studies examining the motives behind proenvironmental behavior are common within the conservation literature (Kabii & Horowitz ), where motives are often categorized as either values‐driven or incentive‐based (van den Born et al. ). For example, volunteers in an invasive plant species removal program reported that caring for nature and expressing their values were among their top motives (Pagès et al.…”

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“…For example, van den Born et al. () found that committed conservation actors are driven by their belief that nature contributes to a meaningful life. Similar motives have been demonstrated in participants in an invasive plant species eradication program (Pagès et al.…”

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The psychological appeal of owning private land for conservation

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Grenyer

2018

Conservation Biology

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Continued threats to global biodiversity have stimulated interest in the private purchase of land for conservation. Though not a new phenomenon, private land conservation appears to be on the rise, and its ambiguous position between philanthropy and financial investment leads to questions about the nature of landowner motives. Based on grounded theory analysis of interviews with the owners of privately conserved areas (PCAs), we find that individual landowners' involvement in private land conservation is driven, in part, by a desire for meaningful personal engagement in a project. This paper presents a model of PCA engagement in which landowners become personally invested in the management of the PCA and in the nature they protect. By looking at what landowners have in common across a variety of cultural and policy contexts, we show that landowners' engagement in PCAs as a meaningful project contributes to their well-being and, moreover, that PCAs can be conceptualized not merely as philanthropic endeavors, nor merely investments, but as meaningful projects in which their owners engage. Notably, fundamental psychological drives for autonomy, efficacy, and social connection facilitate the engagement process, regardless of whether conservation motivation is intrinsic or extrinsic. Our findings suggest that land conservation programs might consider i) allowing landowner autonomy to the maximum extent possible, ii) developing best practice standards against which landowners can assess their efficacy, and iii) facilitating the development of landowner networks. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

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“…In a similar vein, moral obligations towards non-human nature, based on an extended range of similarities to human attributes, remain implicitly anthropocentric through their reliance on the demonstration of specific cognitive or sentient capacities (see Benton, 1993). Yet at the same time, most modern legal frameworks, including many international statutes, indulge in a form of ironic or unintended animism through the recognition of rights for institutional entities such as corporations and other inanimate "things" (see Tavares, 2014).…”

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The fly that tried to save the world: Saproxylic geographies and other‐than‐human ecologies

Gandy

2019

Trans Inst British Geog

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The discovery of a rare fly in a North London cemetery marks my entry point into a wider reflection on the value and significance of urban biodiversity. Using different indices of ecological endangerment, along with a critical reading of new materialist insights, this paper explores the cultural, political, and scientific significance of saproxylic (rotten wood) invertebrate communities in an urban context. The paper brings the fields of urban ecology and post‐humanism into closer dialogue to illuminate aspects to urban nature that have not been systematically explored within existing analytical frameworks. We consider a series of intersecting worlds, both human and non‐human, as part of a glimpse into saproxylic dimensions to urban nature under a putative transition to a new geo‐environmental epoch.

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The missing pillar: Eudemonic values in the justification of nature conservation

Cited by 83 publications

References 48 publications

Exploring the Construct of Relational Values: An Empirical Approach

Exploring the Construct of Relational Values: An Empirical Approach

The psychological appeal of owning private land for conservation

The fly that tried to save the world: Saproxylic geographies and other‐than‐human ecologies

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