Luque‐Lora, R, Keane, A, Fisher, JA et al. (2 more authors) (2022) A global analysis of factors predicting conservationists' values. People and Nature, 4 (5). pp. 1339-1351. ISSN 2575-8314
Abstract
1) There exists a wealth of philosophical, sociological and anthropological literature on environmental values; yet, few studies have investigated the values held by conservationists themselves, and how these shape the conservation movement.
2) Here, we present the first global analysis of the relationships between conservationists' values and a broad range of conservationists' characteristics, categorised into their educational and professional background, geographical context and personal experiences in childhood and adulthood. We draw on survey responses from 9264 conservationists from 149 countries to conduct the broadest analysis to date of what factors are associated with the values of conservationists.
3) Our results demonstrate that 13 characteristics of conservationists' personal and professional backgrounds are statistically related to their values regarding the place of people, science, capitalism and nonhuman entities in conservation. Of these characteristics, educational specialism and continent of nationality had the highest predictive power. We also draw on open-text responses to uncover other factors that conservationists identify as having been important in shaping their values; travel and religion were the most commonly reported.
4) Our findings have important implications for current debates on diversity and inclusion within the conservation community. In particular, we provide broad empirical evidence that increasing personal and professional diversity in conservation organisations is likely to also increase the range of values represented. We also discuss the implications of our results for interdisciplinarity, the management of disagreement and conflict in conservation, and the training of future generations of conservationists.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Authors. People and Nature published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | conflict, diversity, education, ethics, perspectives, place |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Cambridge Conservation Initiative CCI-07-17-014 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 04 Aug 2022 12:10 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 23:04 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley Open Access |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/pan3.10391 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:189701 |