The Deliberative Value Formation model

By J. Kenter, M. Reed, I. Fazey. 2016

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Abstract It is increasingly argued that preferences and values for complex goods such as ecosystem services are not pre-formed but need to be generated through a process of deliberation and learning. While the number of studies incorporating deliberation in monetary and non-monetary valuation of ecosystem services is increasing, there is a limited theoretical basis to how values are influenced and shaped in social valuation processes. In this paper we present the Deliberative Value Formation (DVF) model, a new theoretical model for deliberative valuation informed by social-psychological theory. Anchored within a broader theoretical framework around shared and plural values, the DVF model identifies a range of potential positive (e.g. learning) and negative (e.g. social desirability bias) outcomes of deliberation and key factors that influence outcomes (e.g. ability to deliberate, institutional factors, power dynamics). It also conceptualises how values may be formed by ‘translating’ transcendental values, our principles and life goals, into more specific contextual values. Underpinned by this theoretical model, we present a six-step template for designing deliberative valuation processes. The DVF provides a theoretical and methodological framework for more rigorous monetary and non-monetary deliberative valuation, and enables more effective integration of social learning and plural knowledges and values in valuation and decision-making.

Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Media Technology

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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).”
Shared values and deliberative valuation: Future directions (2016, background): “While others have raised these points (Chan et al., 2012b, 2016; Church et al., 2014; Daniel et al., 2012; Kenter et al., 2011; Milcu et al., 2013; Pleasant et al., 2014), Cooper et al. (2016, in this issue) develop these arguments specifically in relation to spiritual and aesthetic values of…”
Ecosystem services and the idea of shared values (2016, methodology): “In place of the conventional process of value capture, therefore, we suggest that valuation becomes primarily a process of value formation and expression (see in this issue: Kenter et al. 2016b and Kenter et al., 2016c), generating data to inform debate, which in turn informs policy.”
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…”