Keywords: Nigeria// peri-urban shared values// ecosystem services// diverse values of nature// teachers// village committees//
Funded by: SBERG team internal budget
Key team members: CCE; MKH; BCO
Period: c 2019-2020
Key Contributions specifically to the WeValue Platform Knowledge:
This work was don’t to explore the range and type of shared values that different groups had, with some attempt to have similar groups in two separate settlements in the same area of Nigeria, and several different ones in one area. It shed some light on the themes that different role-type groups would focus on compared to other role types, and how these might vary from one town to another nearby, thus helping the WeValue team understand more about intrinsic and extrinsic variability. It was later found useful to retrospectively examine this data for subsets of shared values within the naturally-occurring envelope of shared values: in particular the values held by local people towards Nature. This allowed us to search for authentically grounded values and to inspect them through the lens of current typologies such as the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment framework, and the more recent IPBES divers values of nature – instrumental, intrinsic and relational.
Relevant papers published: Paper # 39 was published from this work:
Chike C. Ebido, Benita C. Odii, Shehanas Pazhoor, Mahsa Firoozmand, Andrew Church and Marie K. Harder.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su17062761
This paper shows how ecosystem services approaches can be improved, by demonstrating the differences between existing ESS ways of categorizing how humans ‘value’ nature, and what is found with a grounded approach.
(This is a brief report on this work and this page will be extended when the team has more time…)
