Caught Between Personal and Collective Values: Biodiversity conservation in European decision-making
| Autor: | Eeva Primmer, Nicoleta Geamana, Marina García-Llorente, Tiina Jääskeläinen, Malgorzata Blicharska, Georgia Cosor, Mette Termansen, Györgyi Bela, Yennie K. Bredin, John R. Haslett, Paula A. Harrison, Pam Berry, Veronika Fabók, Anne Holst Korsbæk Andersen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Instrumental and intrinsic value
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Corporate governance Compromise media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Environmental ethics 010501 environmental sciences 15. Life on land Management Monitoring Policy and Law Social value orientations 01 natural sciences Ecosystem services Biodiversity conservation Anthropocentrism Cognitive dissonance Sociology Social psychology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Policy and Governance. 27:588-604 |
| ISSN: | 1756-932X |
| DOI: | 10.1002/eet.1763 |
| Popis: | Individual decision-makers at different governance levels operate in social contexts, which means that they sometimes need to compromise their personal values. Yet, this dissonance is rarely the direct target of empirical analyses of environmental decision-making. We undertake a Q-analysis of decision-makers' personal perspectives and the perspectives they perceive to dominate in their decision-making contexts. Our empirical analysis addresses biodiversity conservation, which has traditionally been justified with intrinsic value- and science-based arguments. The arguments have recently been broadened with the concept of ecosystem services, highlighting human benefits and values. This evolving context is interesting because of the new rise of anthropocentric values, which can lead to decision-makers experiencing dissonance. Our analysis of interviews with 43 biodiversity conservation decision-makers from nine European countries reveals four personally held perspectives that highlight different, yet partly overlapping, values – intrinsic, human benefit, conservation and connection – as well as three perspectives perceived to dominate in decision-making – utilitarian, insurance and knowledge values. The comparison of personally held and perceived dominant perspectives points to one major conflict: those decision-makers who personally associate with intrinsic values and perceive utilitarian values to dominate in decision-making experience dissonance. By contrast, personally held human benefit values are accommodated well in decision-making contexts and decision-makers who perceive insurance values to dominate experience the least conflict with personally held values. These findings demonstrate the potential of arguments stressing long-term benefits for easing tension and conflicts in conservation decision-making, and the usefulness of empirically testing of the coincidence of individual and social values. |
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