The impact of information, value-deliberation and group-based decision-making on values for ecosystem services : integrating deliberative monetary valuation and storytelling

By J. Kenter, Niels Jobstvogt, V. Watson, K. Irvine, Michael Christie, Rosalind Bryce. 2016

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Monetary valuation quantifies exchange values, but broader approaches are needed to understand the meaning of those monetary values and the shared, plural and cultural values that underpin them. In this study, we integrated deliberative monetary valuation, storytelling, subjective well-being and psychometric approaches to comprehensively elicit cultural ecosystem service values for proposed UK marine protected areas. We elicit and compare five valuation stages: individual values from an online survey; individual and group values following deliberation on information in workshops; and individual and group values following storytelling and a ‘transcendental values compass’ deliberation. Deliberated group values significantly differed from non-deliberated individual values, with reduced willingness to pay and increased convergence with subjective wellbeing; deliberated individual values fell between the two. Storytelling played an important role in revealing values that were previously implicit. Participants were more confident about values elicited in the workshops than the online survey and felt that deliberated values should be used in decision-making. The results of this study (albeit with a limited sample size) suggest that shared values may be a better reflection of welfare implications than non-deliberated individual values, while at the same time more reflective of participants' transcendental values: their broader life goals and principles.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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Twenty years of ecosystem services: How far have we come and how far do we still need to go? (2017, background): “Mixes of monetary and non-monetary, deliberative valuation processes are needed to provide sustainable outcomes (Kenter et al., 2016).”
Transcendental values and the valuation and management of ecosystem services (2016, background): “…(e.g. Ajzen, 2004), mostly for validity testing purposes, but there have been few studies that explicitly consider TVs and how they relate to contextual values and WTP as a value indicator (López-Mosquera and Sánchez, 2012; Spash, 2006; Spash et al. 2009; Kenter et al. 2011; 2016a this issue).”
Recreational cultural ecosystem services: How do people describe the value? (2017, methodology): “…of theory and method in relation to shared, plural and cultural values using deliberate techniques such as demonstrated by Irvine et al. (2016) and Kenter et al. (2016b) shows the determination to fundamentally challenge the utilitarian framing and the analytical aggregation of individual values…”
Shared values and deliberative valuation: Future directions (2016, methodology): “This can in theory lead to an infinite regress, though in practice could be achieved on the basis of established participatory principles (see Kenter et al., 2016a, in this issue).”
The Deliberative Value Formation model (2016, unknown): “This step would align with the final stages of for example deliberative monetary valuation (e.g. Kenter, 2016b; Kenter et al., 2016a; Orchard-Webb et al., 2016), multicriteria analysis (e.g. Ranger et al., 2016), or citizens’ juries (e.g. Niemeyer, 2004; Fish et al., 2013).”