Autorentext

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.

Klappentext

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.

Zusammenfassung
This book explores how to include values in sustainable develoment research and practice, giving methods to gain an understanding of participants' values, with examples of sustainable development projects which have been influenced by values as well as statements of values towards the environment.

Inhalt

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