In Search of Value Literacy: Suggestions for the Elicitation of Environmental Values

摘要: This paper recognises the many contributions to work on environmental values while arguing that some reconsideration of elicitation practices is warranted. It argues speaking and thinking about certain values, particularly ethical expressions, are ill-matched with affectively neutral, direct question-answer formats standard willingness-to-pay survey methods. Several indirect, narrated, resonant tasks were used provide study participants new opportunities express their values. Coded results demonstrate morally resonant, image-based, narrative-style help respondents articulate a broader range noncost nonutilitarian However, it was found elicitations this kind most useful when presented in subtle noncontroversial form. suggestions for synthesising these methods more structured forms (e.g., surveys, constructed preferences, etc.) offered.