Aiming at just and sustainable futures for biodiversity conservation requires clarity
concerning how justice relates to the diverse values of nature. By drawing upon and …

The human relationship with nature is a topic that has been explored throughout human
history. More recently, the idea of connection to nature has merged as an important …

Highlights•Developed countries and urban communities hold relational values.•Developing
countries and rural communities hold instrumental values.•Culture plays a positive role in …

There has never been a more pressing and opportune time for science and practice to
collaborate towards restoration of the world's forests. Multiple uncertainties remain for …

The relational turn in the academic literature on environmental values explores ontologies
that rethink the dualistic, hierarchical separations of humans from nature. In particular, the …

Ecosystem services justice is an emergent research field. Over the past decade, research on
ecosystem services has increasingly developed a justice perspective and incorporated it …

ABSTRACT Globally, around 0.78 billion rural people live in close proximity to forests and
have been considered “forestdwelling” and/or “forest dependent”. Forest dependency has so …

This article presents our recent experience studying public perceptions, discourses, and
social values in Park Beverin, a Regional Nature Park in Switzerland. We applied four social …

Human–nature relationships are in a critical state, characterized by increasing
environmental problems caused by humans. Thus, it is essential to know how to motivate …

Modern environmental thought has always involved normative claims about the values
needed for sustainability. This has often played out in debates between proponents of …