The study of human values in understanding and managing social-ecological systems

Jones, Natalie A.; Shaw, Sylvie; Ross, Helen; Witt, Katherine; Pinner, Breanna

doi:10.5751/es-07977-210115

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“…The more diverse the values of stakeholders engaged in collective action, the greater the investment in communication required to negotiate and minimize intergroup conflicts (McCann 2013, Enengel et al 2014. A second assertion we make is that greater focus on individuals relative to collectives will provide an opportunity for measuring processes that operate at multiple scales (e.g., individual personalities, cultural cognition) and shape human behavior (Newell et al 2014, Manfredo et al 2014, Jones et al 2016, Raymond and Kenter 2016. Research focused on the psychology of behavior change is underrepresented in the SESF literature, despite its contributions to knowledge of the drivers of decisions that influence how human and nonhuman activities create new dynamics and form complex, adaptive networks over time (Berkes et al 2003, Liu et al 2007, Collins et al 2011, Muhar et al 2018.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Information on the dominant value structures and degree of value heterogeneity among individuals can enhance the success of community-based conservation initiatives and facilitate discussions about management of collective resources. If shared and conflicting values are identified and made visible, stakeholder buy-in will be more likely to ensue (Jones et al 2016). Natural resource management strategies can be further refined to focus on zoning, compromises, trade-offs, and/or compensation payments to facilitate collaborative governance.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In this vein, scholars have underlined the importance of comanagement and place-based research that engages communities involved in collective action whereby governing authorities and local stakeholders share power, knowledge, and responsibility for decisions (Berkes 2009). This, in turn, warrants consideration of human values because they inform behavioral patterns (Schwartz and Bardi 2001) and play a fundamental role in determining the likelihood of collective action needed for collaborative governance (Olsson et al 2004, Jones et al 2016. However, the value concept has remained largely absent from the socialecological systems discourse.…”

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Incorporating multilevel values into the social-ecological systems framework

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ABSTRACT. The social-ecological systems framework has guided investigations of complex interactions among ecosystems, society, and economies. In recent years, academics and practitioners have taken steps to strengthen this framework by calling for more systematic engagement with the cognitive and affective bases of human behavior. We suggest research that engages with multilevel values (i.e., individual, cultural, assigned) will be better positioned to understand how and why people cooperate in natural resource comanagement situations, and in turn, develop more effective strategies for mitigating and adapting to a changing world. We review three conceptualizations of the value concept operating within environmental governance regimes to offer a deeper understanding of how multilevel values fit within the social-ecological systems framework. Drawing on a conceptual model of these relationships, we share results from three example studies that demonstrate how values and governance can be more explicitly integrated in future research. We aim to stimulate a dialogue about the mutual benefits that can emerge from a fuller characterization of the relationship between values and environmental governance to manage for complexities of social-ecological systems.

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Incorporating multilevel values into the social-ecological systems framework

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“…The SES perspective builds on interdisciplinary research linking ecology to economy and political science (Berkes and Folke 1998, Folke 2006, Liu et al 2007. Cognitions have been relatively neglected and undertheorized in SES research (Jones et al 2016), but scholars are asking questions about the deeper, slower variables in social systems such as identity, core values, and worldviews (Folke et al 2010, Berkes andRoss 2013) that guide and constrain human actions (Adger et al 2009). The need to understand and assess more systematically these variables requires closer engagement with social sciences and humanities (Daniel et al 2012, Brown et al 2013, Pröpper and Haupts 2014.…”

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confidence: 99%

The contribution of sense of place to social-ecological systems research: a review and research agenda

Masterson¹,

Stedman²,

Enqvist³

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ABSTRACT. To develop and apply goals for future sustainability, we must consider what people care about and what motivates them to engage in solving sustainability issues. Sense of place theory and methods provide a rich source of insights that, like the socialecological systems perspective, assume an interconnected social and biophysical reality. However, these fields of research are only recently beginning to converge, and we see great potential for further engagement. Here, we present an approach and conceptual tools for how the sense of place perspective can contribute to social-ecological systems research. A brief review focuses on two areas where relation to place is particularly relevant: stewardship of ecosystem services, and responses to change in social-ecological systems. Based on the review, we synthesize specific ways in which sense of place may be applied by social-ecological systems researchers to analyze individual and social behaviors. We emphasize the importance of descriptive place meanings and evaluative place attachment as tools to study the patterned variation of sense of place within or among populations or types of places and the implications for resilience and transformative capacity. We conclude by setting out an agenda for future research that takes into account the concerns of resilience thinking such as the effects of dynamic ecology, interactions between temporal and spatial scales, and the interplay of rapid and incremental change on sense of place and place-related behaviors. This future research agenda also includes concerns from the broader sense of place literature such as the importance of structural power relationships on the creation of place meanings and how scaling up a sense of place may influence pro-environmental behavior.

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“…At the same time, human decisions and behaviors toward ecosystems influence ecosystems' capacity to supply ecosystem services (Daily et al 2009). Human decisions and behaviors toward ecosystems are also determined by the multiples ways in which nature, ecosystems, or ecosystems services are important for individuals or social groups (Ives and Kendal 2014, Jones et al 2016, Pascual et al 2017, Arias-Arévalo et al 2018). …”

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confidence: 99%