Values in Sustainable Development

343 Pages·2013·1.288 MB·English

by  Jack Appleton

Values in Sustainable Development
T o enhance sustainable development research and practice, the values of the
researchers, project managers and participants must fi rst 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.
Part I is methodological, looking at what values are, why they are important, and
how to include values in sustainable development. Part II 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. Part III 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.
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.
Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
Institutional and Social Innovation for Sustainable Urban Development
Edited by Harald A. Mieg and Klaus Töpfer
The Sustainable University
Progress and prospects
Edited by Stephen Sterling, Larch Maxey and Heather Luna
Sustainable Development in Amazonia
Paradise in the making
Kei Otsuki
Measuring and Evaluating Sustainability
Ethics in sustainability indexes
Sarah E. Fredericks
Values in Sustainable Development
Edited by Jack Appleton
Climate Resilient Development
Participatory solutions from developing countries
Edited by Astrid Carrapatoso and Edith Kürzinger
Theatre for Women’s Participation in Sustainable Development
Beth Osnes
Urban Waste and Sanitation Services for Sustainable Development
Harnessing Social and Technical Diversity in East Africa
Bas van Vliet, Joost van Buuren and Shaaban Mgana
Sustainable Capitalism and the Pursuit of Well-Being
Neil E. Harrison
Values in Sustainable
Development
Edited by
Jack Appleton
First published 2014
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
© 2014 selection and editorial material, Jack Appleton; individual chapters, the contributors
The right of Jack Appleton to be identifi ed as author of the editorial material, and of the individual
authors as authors of their contributions, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of
the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or
by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including
p hotocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in
writing from the publishers.
Trademark notice : Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are
used only for identifi cation and explanation without intent to infringe.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data
Values in sustainable development / edited by Jack Appleton.
pages cm. – (Routledge studies in sustainable development ; 6)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Sustainable development – Moral and ethical aspects. 2. Environmental
ethics. I. Appleton, Jack.
HC79.E5V255 2013
174(cid:397).4–dc23
2013010773
ISBN13: 978-0- 415-64350-4 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-0- 203-08017-7 (ebk)
Typeset in Goudy by Out of House Publishing
Contents
List of fi gures ix
List of tables x
Notes on contributors xi
Preface xvii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction 1
JACK APPLETON
Introduction to Part I: Methods for understanding individuals’ values 5
JACK APPLETON
1 Caring for what we care about 7
VANDANA SHIVA
2 Including participants’ values in the sustainable
development process 18
JACK APPLETON
3 Constructing values and beliefs: a relational approach
to sustainable development 27
SHEILA MCNAMEE
4 Understanding values using critical discourse analysis 37
G. G. PATTHEY
5 Psychometrics: measuring attitudes and values
about the environment 46
TAMMI VACHA- HAASE, ANNE M. HANSEN, AND ZINTA S. BYRNE
vi Contents
6 Determining environmental values using focus groups 58
DING DING
7 Determining environmental values: storytelling at BP 68
DAVID M. BOJE AND JACOB A. MASSOUD
8 Charrettes in the sustainable development process 78
JACK APPLETON
9 Science and sustainability: a transition research perspective 92
DERK LOORBACH AND BETTINA WITTNEBEN
Introduction to Part II: Religious and ethnically
based environmental values 103
JACK APPLETON
10 Indigenous peoples’ environmental values 105
PETER N. JONES
11 Hindu traditions and the environment 115
PRAKASH C. DIXIT
12 The Jewish tradition of stewardship 126
DAVID PATTERSON
13 Christian stewardship 134
FRED VAN DYKE
14 Islam and stewardship 145
HAMIM HAMIM, LULUK SETYANINGSIH, AND ASEP NURHALIM
15 The social construction of African- American
environmental values 153
CASSANDRA JOHNSON- GAITHER AND J. M. BOWKER
16 Latin Americans and the environment: attitudes, beliefs,
and values 163
VICTOR CORRAL- VERDUGO, BLANCA FRAIJO- SING, AND
C É SAR TAPIA- FONLLEM
17 Post- disaster Japan’s environmental transition 172
W. PUCK BRECHER
Contents vii
18 Environmental values in China 182
PAUL G. HARRIS
19 African environmental values expressed through proverbs 193
CHIGBO JOSEPH EKWEALO
20 Achieving sustainability in Nigeria 204
AINA THOMPSON ADEBOYEJO AND DAVID VICTOR OGUNKAN
Introduction to Part III: Examples of values guiding behavior 215
JACK APPLETON
21 Sustainable perspectivalism: who sustains whom? 217
MICHAEL MARDER
22 Landscaping with sustainability principles 226
KATHY SHEARIN
23 Bringing sustainability and science to the incarcerated:
the Sustainable Prisons Project 235
NALINI M. NADKARNI AND DAN J. PACHOLKE
24 Designing environmental education programs: modeling
pro- environmental competency 244
BLANCA FRAIJO- SING, C É SAR TAPIA- FONLLEM, AND
VICTOR CORRAL- VERDUGO
25 Avoiding wrong turns on the road to ecosystem
services valuation 255
KEVIN HALSEY
26 Values and strategies for the environment and sustainable
development 264
MARK E. HILLON
27 Building resilience in East African cities: the spirit of
“harambee”: adaptive capacity: the nexus between sustainability
and climate change response 273
JUSTUS KITHIIA AND ANNA LYTH
viii Contents
28 The impact of development on biodiversity in Singapore 286
KWEK YAN CHONG, MARCUS AIK HWEE CHUA, MEI LIN NEO,
DANIEL JIA JUN NG, SITI MARYAM YAAKUB, TAI CHONG TOH,
ALISON KIM SHAN WEE, AND DING LI YONG
29 Environmental law as a foundation for sustainable development 299
AMBASSADOR AMADO S. TOLENTINO JR
Further reading 306
Index 309
Figures
3.1 The relational construction of beliefs and values (meaning) 32
7.1 Antenarrative clusters and answers 73
17.1 Satoyama Nagaya in Fujino 177
23.1 Jane Goodall’s Fifi 242
24.1 A model of sustainable competency promoted by
EE programs 251
25.1 Ecosystems steps framework 259