Indicators for relational values of nature’s contributions to good quality of life: the IPBES approach for Europe and Central Asia
2020
Schröter, Matthias | Başak, Esra | Church, Andrew | Keune, Hans | Osipova, Elena | Oteros-Rozas, Elisa | Sievers-Glotzbach, Stefanie | van Oudenhoven, Alexander P. E. | Balvanera, Patricia | González, David | Jacobs, Sander | Molnár, Zsolt | Pascual, Unai | Martín-López, Berta
Relational values are values of desirable relationships between people and nature and amongpeople (through nature). We report on the approach to capture relational values of nature’scontributions to people in the regional assessment for Europe and Central Asia of theIntergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).We present a framework considering indicators along four relational value dimensions aboutpeople’s relationships with nature: security and sovereignty; health; equity and justice; andheritage, social identity and stewardship. The framework has been operationalized for threenature’s contributions to people (NCP): regulation of freshwater quality and quantity, foodand feed, and physical and psychological experiences derived from nature. We identify waysto empirically assess relational values of nature’s contributions to people at regional andcontinental scales with social-ecological indicators and proxies, ranging from biophysicalindicators to indicators that intersect socio-economic with biophysical data. We concludethat many of the identified indicators can be considered as useful proxies of relational valuesin a quantitative way. The analysis shows that relational values are essential to consider at thescience-policy interface as they are an important set of values that people hold about natureand that go beyond instrumental relations.
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