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The role of values in future scenarios: what types of values underpin (un)sustainable and (un)just futures?
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Stockholm Resilience Centre. Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Science, Brno, Czechia; National Institute for Research on Socioeconomic Impacts of Diseases and Systemic Risks – SYRI, Czechia.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7711-4135
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Number of Authors: 162023 (English)In: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, ISSN 1877-3435, E-ISSN 1877-3443, Vol. 64, article id 101343Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Values have been recognized as critical leverage points for sustainability transformations. However, there is limited evidence unpacking which types of values are associated with specific types of sustainable and unsustainable futures, as described by future scenarios and other types of futures-related works. This paper builds on a review of 460 future scenarios, visions, and other types of futures-related works in the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Values Assessment, synthesizing evidence from academia, private sector, governmental and non-governmental strategies, science-policy reports, and arts-based evidence, to identify the types of values of nature that underlie different archetypes of the future. The results demonstrate that futures related to dystopian scenario archetypes such as Regional Competition, Inequality, and Breakdown are mostly underpinned by deeply individualistic and materialistic values. In contrast, futures with more sustainable and just outcomes, such as Global Sustainable Development and Regional Sustainability, tend to be underpinned by a more balanced combination of plural values of nature, with a dominant focus on nature’s contribution to societal (as opposed to individual) aspects of well-being. Furthermore, the paper identifies research gaps and illustrates the key importance of acknowledging not only people’s specific values directly related to nature, such as instrumental, intrinsic, and relational human-nature values and relationships, but also broad values and worldviews that affect the interactions between nature and society, with resulting impacts on Nature's Contributions to People and opportunities for a good quality of life.

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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-223736DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101343ISI: 001084551400001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85171747267OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-223736DiVA, id: diva2:1812867
Available from: 2023-11-17 Created: 2023-11-17 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved

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