Three perspectives on relational values of nature
Three perspectives on relational values of nature
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自然关系价值的三种观点
作者：
S. Stålhammar;H. Thorén
关系价值（RV）最近被引入作为理解自然价值的第三类价值，并被认为与更熟悉的价值论类别（如工具价值和内在价值）并列。这一概念很快就得到了普及，并有望更好地捕捉人们和集体如何看待他们的福祉，并做出涉及自然世界的选择。虽然关系价值的概念并非没有优点，但其最初和当前的概念化提出了关于它如何与现有价值概念相关联的问题。在这里，我们从一个跨学科的角度出发，阐述了这一概念如何有助于解决以不同方式处理环境价值的三个领域的问题：环境伦理学;生态系统服务价值评估;和环境心理学。我们提供了在每个领域的价值概念的概述，并显示如何关系价值已被描述或应用。我们的分析表明，价值概念被用来解决不同的问题，在三个领域，这些差异有关系价值如何可以框架和位于价值理论的影响。这些差异包括，例如，人们如何评价自然的描述性问题与为什么自然应该被评价的规范性问题。我们展示了如何可以被视为解决生态系统服务价值评估的内在和工具价值的狭隘概念化的问题，并建议RV可以被视为一个认识论框架，而不是一个价值观的概念。这个概念也有可能作为一个“边界对象”，提供学科观点的交叉施肥。
Relational value (RV) has recently been introduced as a third class of values for understanding values of nature and are thought to sit alongside more familiar axiological categories such as instrumental and intrinsic value. The concept has quickly gained ground in and promises to better capture how people and collectives perceive of their wellbeing and make choices that involve the natural world. While the idea of relational value is not without merits, its initial and current conceptualization raises questions about how it relates to existing value concepts. Here, we start from an interdisciplinary perspective and delineate how the concept can contribute to addressing problems in three fields that deal with environmental values in different ways: environmental ethics; ecosystem services valuation; and environmental psychology. We provide an overview of value concepts in each field and show how relational value has been described or applied. Our analysis shows that value concepts are used to solve different problems in the three fields, and these differences have implications for how relational value can be framed and situated in values theory. These differences involve e.g., the descriptive question of how people value nature versus the normative questions of why nature should be valued. We show how the concept can be seen as solving the problem of narrow conceptualizations of intrinsic and instrumental value in ecosystem services valuation and suggest that RV can be conceived of as an epistemological framing rather than a values concept. The concept also has potential to function as a ‘boundary object’ to provide cross-fertilization of disciplinary perspectives.
影响因子：
7.6
作者：
Fish, Robert;Church, Andrew;Winter, Michael
通讯作者：
Winter, Michael