Realms of Value: Conflicting Natural Resource Values and Incommensurability
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Divergent values are often at the heart of natural resource conflict. Using discord over the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah, U.S.A. as a case study, I propose that values are perceived as incommensurate because they reflect different realms, with which there exist distinct concepts of what it means to value and distinct, irreducible forms of value expression. I further argue that collaborative, discursive processes are one way to account for plural values in policy and decision making without requiring a common metric, yet they are not without theoretical and practical challenges.Download Info
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Article provided by White Horse Press in its journal Environmental Values.
Volume (Year): 15 (2006)
Issue (Month): 1 (February)
Pages: 3-29
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Keywords: Value conflict; incommensurability; plural values; Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument; wilderness; collaborative decision making;Find related papers by JEL classification:
- Q51 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Valuation of Environmental Effects
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- Ali DOUAI (GREThA), 2007.
"Wealth, Well-being and Value(s): A Proposition of Structuring Concepts for a (real) Transdisciplinary Dialogue within Ecological Economics,"
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2007-18, Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée.
- Ali DOUAI (GREThA-GRES), 2007. "Wealth, Well-being and Value(s): A Proposition of Structuring Concepts for a (real) Transdisciplinary Dialogue within Ecological Economics," Cahiers du GRES 2007-21, Groupement de Recherches Economiques et Sociales.
- Spash, Clive L., 2007. "Deliberative monetary valuation (DMV): Issues in combining economic and political processes to value environmental change," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 63(4), pages 690-699, September.
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