Values in Sustainable Development

ISBN-13: 9780415643504 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 342 str.

Jack Appleton

Opis

To enhance sustainable development research and practice the values of the researchers, project managers and participants must first be made explicit. Values in Sustainable Development introduces and compares worldviews and values from multiple countries and perspectives, providing a survey of empirical methods available to study environmental values as affected by sustainable development. The first part is methodological, looking at what values are, why they are important, and how to include values in sustainable development. The second part looks at how values differ across social contexts, religions and viewpoints demonstrating how various individuals may value nature from a variety of cultural, social, and religious points of view. The third and final part presents case studies ordered by scale from the individual and community levels through to the national, regional and international levels. These examples show how values can motivate, be incorporated into and be an integral part of the success of a project. This thought-provoking book gives researchers, students and practitioners in sustainable development a wealth of approaches to include values in their research.

Spis treści

Part 1: Methods for Understanding Individuals' Values  1. Caring for What We Care About  2. Including Participants' Values in the Sustainable Development Process  3. Constructing Values and Beliefs: A Relational Approach to Sustainable Development  4. Understanding Values Using Critical Discourse Analysis  5. Psychometrics: Measuring Attitudes and Values about the Environment  6. Determining Environmental Values Using Focus Groups  7. Determining Environmental Values: Storytelling at BP  8. Charrettes in the Sustainable Development Process  9. Science and Sustainability: A Transition Research Perspective  Part 2: Religious and Ethnically Based Environmental Values  10. Indigenous Peoples Environmental Values  11. Hindu Traditions and the Environment 12. The Jewish Tradition of Sterwardship  13. Christian Stewardship  14. Islam and Stewardship  15. The Social Construction of African-American Environmental Values  16. Latin Americans and the Environment: Attitudes, Beliefs, and Values 17. Post-Disaster Japan’s Environmental Transition  18. Environmental Values in China  19. African Environmental Values Expressed through Proverbs  20. Achieving Sustainability in Nigeria  Part 3: Examples of Values Guiding Organizational Behavior  21. Sustainable Perspectivalism: Who Sustains Whom?  22. Landscaping with Sustainability Principles  23. Bringing Sustainability and Science to the Incarcerated: The Sustainable Prisons Project  24. Designing Environmental Education Programs: Modeling Pro-environmental Competency  25. Avoiding Wrong Turns on the Road to Ecosystem Services Valuation  26. Values and Strategies for the Environment and Sustainable Development  27. Building Resilience in East African Cities: The Spirit Of ‘Harambee’: The Nexus Between Sustainability and Climate Change Response  28. The Impact of Development on Biodiversity in Singapore  29. Environmental Law as a Foundation for Sustainable Development

O autorze

Jack Appleton is a research fellow at the University of Malaysia Sabah, Borneo, and teaches 'Principles of Sustainability' and 'Research and Quantitative Methods' at Merlyhurst University, USA.