What are heritage values? Integrating natural and cultural heritage into environmental valuation

[摘要] 1. There are strong links between heritage and the environment yet, heritage is notfully included in existing ecosystem-based frameworks. Different understandings of heritage values exist, and heritage values are not yet related to key valuecategories in environmental values research.2. To address this gap and facilitate a common values-based approach, we developa novel framework that links heritage and environmental values. First, we expand the understanding of heritage values by linking heritage to key environmental value categories. We then use the Life Framework of Values to showhow heritage features in the different ways in which people relate to the world.3. The resulting heritage values framework is operationalised by applying it tosix case examples drawn from participatory research on the governance ofEuropean coastal and maritime heritage.4. We found that the environment was not only considered to be a setting forheritage but was itself valued as heritage in different ways; that heritage is notextrinsic to the environment but is also a way in which people see meaning inthe environment; and that multiple value frames and types were involved inshaping this perspective. The results highlight important discrepancies betweenstakeholders' perspectives and existing management approaches.5. Applying the framework shows the ways in which heritage and nature are entwined by providing a structure for elucidating what can be valued as heritage, what values can inform heritage values and how heritage values feature inhuman–nature relations.

[学科分类] 护理学

[关键词] culture;ecosystem services;heritage;Life Framework of Values;nature's contributions to people;participatory research;plural values