Global Sustainability (Jan 2020)
Use your power for good: plural valuation of nature – the Oaxaca statement
- Sander Jacobs,
- Noelia Zafra-Calvo,
- David Gonzalez-Jimenez,
- Louise Guibrunet,
- Karina Benessaiah,
- Augustin Berghöfer,
- Juliana Chaves-Chaparro,
- Sandra Díaz,
- Erik Gomez-Baggethun,
- Sharachchandra Lele,
- Berta Martín-López,
- Vanessa Anne Masterson,
- Juliana Merçon,
- Hannah Moersberger,
- Barbara Muraca,
- Albert Norström,
- Patrick O'Farrell,
- Jenny C. Ordonez,
- Anne-Hélène Prieur-Richard,
- Alexander Rincón-Ruiz,
- Nadia Sitas,
- Suneetha M. Subramanian,
- Wubalem Tadesse,
- Meine van Noordwijk,
- Unai Pascual,
- Patricia Balvanera
Affiliations
- Sander Jacobs
- ORCiD
- Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Havenlaan 88 bus 73, 1000Brussels, Belgium
- Noelia Zafra-Calvo
- Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Edificio Sede N° 1, Planta 1ª, Parque Científico de UPV/EHU, Barrio Sarriena s/n, 48940Leioa, Bizkaia, Spain
- David Gonzalez-Jimenez
- IPBES Technical Support Unit on Values based at the Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Antigua Carretera a Pátzcuaro 8701, Col. Ex-Hacienda San José de la Huerta CP 58190, Morelia, Michoacán, México
- Louise Guibrunet
- ORCiD
- Research Institute on Ecosystems and Sustainability, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico,
- Karina Benessaiah
- Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University. Macdonald-Stewart Building, McGill, 21111 Lakeshore Road, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QCH9X 3V9, Canada
- Augustin Berghöfer
- Department of Environmental Politics, UFZ – Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany
- Juliana Chaves-Chaparro
- Science Policy and Capacity Building Division, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
- Sandra Díaz
- Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (IMBIV-CONICET) and FCEFyN, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, CC 495, 5000Córdoba, Argentina
- Erik Gomez-Baggethun
- Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Faculty of Landscape and Society, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Norway, PO Box 5003, N-1432 Ås, Norway Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Gaustadalléen 21, 0349Oslo, Norway
- Sharachchandra Lele
- Centre for Environment & Development, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore, India
- Berta Martín-López
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Faculty of Sustainability, Institute for Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research, Universitätsallee 1, 21355Lüneburg, Germany
- Vanessa Anne Masterson
- ORCiD
- SwedBio at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Kräftriket 2B, 10691Stockholm, Sweden
- Juliana Merçon
- Institute of Educational Research, University of Veracruz, Mexico
- Hannah Moersberger
- Future Earth, Sorbonne Universités, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
- Barbara Muraca
- Department of Philosophy & Department of Environmental Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR97403, USA
- Albert Norström
- Stockholm Resilience Centre, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
- Patrick O'Farrell
- ORCiD
- Natural Resources and Environment CSIR, Biodiversity and ES Research Group, PO Box 320, Stellenbosch, 7599, South Africa Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
- Jenny C. Ordonez
- World Agroforestry Centre, Latin America Region, Lima, Peru
- Anne-Hélène Prieur-Richard
- National Research Agency, Department of Environment, Ecosystem, Biological Resources, 50 avenue Daumesnil 75012, Paris, France
- Alexander Rincón-Ruiz
- School of Economics, National University of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
- Nadia Sitas
- Centre for Complex Systems in Transition and Department of Conservation Ecology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, Stellenbosch, South Africa
- Suneetha M. Subramanian
- Central Ethiopia Environment and Forest Research Center, Ethiopian Environment and Forest Research Institute (EEFRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Wubalem Tadesse
- United Nations University – International Institute for Global Health, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Meine van Noordwijk
- World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Bogor, Indonesia
- Unai Pascual
- Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Edificio Sede N° 1, Planta 1ª, Parque Científico de UPV/EHU, Barrio Sarriena s/n, 48940Leioa, Bizkaia, Spain
- Patricia Balvanera
- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2020.2
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 3
Abstract
Decisions on the use of nature reflect the values and rights of individuals, communities and society at large. The values of nature are expressed through cultural norms, rules and legislation, and they can be elicited using a wide range of tools, including those of economics. None of the approaches to elicit peoples’ values are neutral. Unequal power relations influence valuation and decision-making and are at the core of most environmental conflicts. As actors in sustainability thinking, environmental scientists and practitioners are becoming more aware of their own posture, normative stance, responsibility and relative power in society. Based on a transdisciplinary workshop, our perspective paper provides a normative basis for this new community of scientists and practitioners engaged in the plural valuation of nature.
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