Turning things around
A discussion of values, practices, and action in the context of social‐ecological change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19583239 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cecily Maller (0000-0001-8322-2124, MIT University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 258-270 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | People and Nature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2575-8314 • E-ISSN: 2575-8314 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/pan3.10272 |
| OpenAlex | W3207873054 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 129 |
This special feature concerns understanding human‐nature relations through the lens of values to comprehend how values of the natural world connect with wider processes of change, action and transformation in social‐ecological systems. The relationships between values and action have preoccupied several disciplines and multiple discourses concerned with implementing change, including sustainability and health, and conservation. Focusing on the conceptual underpinnings of how values, action and change are generally understood, this paper proposes an alternate view informed by more‐than‐human thinking and theories of social practices. In doing so, it aims to closely scrutinise the relationship between values and actions in the context of creating transformative change. In highlighting this relationship and presenting some different ways to understand it, the paper aims to contribute to deepening understanding of how to relate to, value and act for nature and how this might be encouraged. One of the most common pathways assumed to generate action is based on the idea that action is driven by values, and that in order to change action, we therefore need to change values. The paper questions the assumed relationship between values and actions and its direction, and instead posits that beginning with actions is a more productive place to start. To work through these ideas, I introduce more‐than‐human theories, focusing on theories of social practice, to discuss how these theories can change how values and actions are conceptualised, how the relationships between them can be understood, and what these ideas can mean for rethinking how to achieve social‐ecological change. A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article
Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geography · Political science · Social change · Sociology · Transformative learning · Computer Science · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions
What is ‘relational thinking’, and how does it manifest in research?
Bird feeders and rat traps
Pathways to more resource-intensive consumption through convenient bundles and complexes of food, mobility and housing practices
Conceptualizing social-ecological practices
Air travel in everyday life
The role of value(s) in theories of human behavior
How do gardeners define ‘invasive’? Implications for invasion science and environmental policy instruments on invasive species
Healthy’ food practices
Where the wild things are
Introducing listening as a weak method for advancing sustainability and interdisciplinary scholarship
Activating faith
Grounding what matters
Transdisciplinary pathways for wildlife conservation
The changing values of feathers and their wearers
Embodied urban design
Outdoor adventure education as a platform for developing environmental leadership
The Facilitating Act Framework
Relational values of nature in empirical research
The multiple values of nature show the lack of a coherent theory of value—In any context
Doctoral students' well‐being through the lens of social practice theory
Human–nature relationships
Residential heat comfort practices
Is biodiversity attractive?—On-site perception of recreational and biodiversity values in urban green space
Transitioning to low carbon communities—from behaviour change to systemic change
Linkages between climate change and sustainable development
Debating the future of comfort
The Varieties of Intrinsic Value
Peak electricity demand and social practice theories
Overcoming the ‘value‐action gap’ in environmental policy
An Integrated Framework for Encouraging Pro-environmental Behaviour
Environmental Values
Aesthetic and spiritual values of ecosystems
Shared values and deliberative valuation
Conservation social science
Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment
The theory of planned behavior
Sustainable Practices
The unrealised potential of school grounds in Britain to monitor and improve biodiversity
Durability, Fashion, Sustainability
Conceptualising Demand
The Site of the Social
The Dynamics of Social Practice
Developing multiscale and integrative nature–people scenarios using the Nature Futures Framework
Wild assumptions? Questioning simplistic narratives about consumer preferences for wildlife products
The Logic of Practice
Theories of practice and public health
Healthy living guidelines and the disconnect with everyday life
Guidelines for the New Nordic Diet
On the Difference between Chalk and Cheese—A Response to Whitmarsh et al's Comments on “beyond the ABC
Aiming higher to bend the curve of biodiversity loss
Matters of care
How does air conditioning become ‘needed’? A case study of routes, rationales and dynamics
Putting practice into policy
Valuing nature’s contributions to people
Loving the mess
Making intrinsic values work; integrating intrinsic values of the more-than-human world through the Life Framework of Values
Understanding pathways to shifting people’s values over time in the context of social–ecological systems
Curious energy consumers
Practice-ing behaviour change
Consumers, Producers and Practices
Explaining Showering
Maintaining physical exercise as a matter of synchronising practices
How theories of practice can inform transition to a decarbonised transport system
Materialising energy and water resources in everyday practices
Plural valuation of nature for equity and sustainability
A conceptual framework for understanding and analyzing attitudes towards environmental behaviour
Environmental issues
The urban question
Re-orienting nature-based solutions with more-than-human thinking
Urban form and climate change
Australian consumers’ food-related environmental beliefs and behaviours
Questioning the virtues of pro-environmental behaviour research
Human–Nature Relations in Suburban Gardens
Studying social practices and global practice change using scrapbooks as a cultural probe
Sticky lives
Urban greening, property and more-than-human commoning
Grounding Ethical Mindfulness for/in Nature
More-than-human cities
Social Practices and Dynamic Non-Humans
The global migration of everyday life
Engaged witnessing
C aring as C ountry
How awkward encounters could influence the future form of many gardens
Making Sense of ‘Food’ Animals
The politics of greening unceded lands in the settler city
Materiality and Social Life
Recruitment and Reproduction
Bringing nature back into cities
Co-becoming Bawaka
After taste
The Status of the "Material" in Theories of Culture
Consumption and Theories of Practice
Rethinking relational ideas of place in more-than-human cities
A social practice perspective on meat reduction in Australian households
Spaces of capability
Beyond the ABC
People, plants and performance
Researching Air-Conditioning Addiction and Ways of Puncturing Practice
An Indigenous Feminist's Take On The Ontological Turn
Habit and the Politics of Social Change
From Environmental Case Study to Environmental Kin Study
Competing Discourses of Sustainable Consumption
Incorporating multilevel values into the social-ecological systems framework
Indigenous more-than-humanisms
Nothing Comes Without Its World
Sand talk
Materialist returns
What is relationality? Indigenous knowledges, practices and responsibilities with kin
Working with and learning from Country
Toward a Theory of Social Practices
Social Theory and Climate Change
Food and eating as social practice - understanding eating patterns as social phenomena and implications for public health
Understanding health through social practices
From health behaviours to health practices
| Unique citing works | 21 |
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| Citations per year | 5,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |