Скачать или смотреть Linking Human Values and Natural Resource Decisions

Presenter: Ken Wallace
Abstract: Across world cultures adequate food and water, spiritual-philosophical contentment and health are some of the many values obtained from the natural biotic and abiotic elements of systems. Such values, in turn, determine human wellbeing. As pressures on natural resources and conflicts over their allocation intensify, setting priorities amongst values becomes essential to effective planning across all scales. Despite advances in the management of natural resources, scope remains for more explicitly identifying the relative importance of values to stakeholders as a basis for management decisions. This seminar presents a classification of values that has been applied to planning in the south-west of Western Australia, and piloted with the Thames Estuary Partnership in the UK. The outputs from values assessments not only provide information on the relative importance of values, but also the level of agreement amongst participating stakeholders – often with surprising results! As part of the seminar, the audience will be invited to (anonymously) assess the values of the native biota of the Western Australian south-west. Results will be fed back to the audience by email after the session.