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On the values of microbes: an ethical investigation of relational values associated with the microbial world.

Published online: 20 May 2025

Authors: Bossert, L. N. & Höll, D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Current microbiome research has revealed that microbes support nearly all life on Earth, are essential for food production, affect human physical heal...

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Relational values of nature in empirical research: a systematic review.

Published online: 12 Oct 2023

Authors: Pratson, D. F. & Adams, N. & Gould, R. K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

In the past 5 years, scholarly and policy attention to relational values, a concept that articulates plural values of nature, has grown steadily. To d...

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Understanding relational values in cultural landscapes in Romania and Germany.

Published online: 28 Oct 2021

Authors: Riechers, M. & Balázsi, Á. & Engler, J. O. & Shumi, G. & Fischer, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Relational values recently emerged as a concept to comprehensively understand and communicate the many values of nature. Relational values can be defi...

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Horizontal portability: a proposal for representing place-based relational values in research and policy.

Published online: 22 Apr 2025

Authors: Himes, A. & Muraca, B. & Allen, K. & Chapman, M. & Coelho-Junior, M. G. & Cundill, G. & Gould, R. K. & Herrmann, T. M. & Kenter, J. O. & Nakachi, A. & Nemogá, G. R. & Ortiz-Przychodzka, S. & Pearson, J. & Rono, B. & Saito, T. & Tadaki, M. & Bonn, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Relational values feature prominently in recent international efforts to protect global biodiversity. In this article, we provide a conceptual approac...

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Turning things around: a discussion of values, practices and action in the context of social-ecological change.

Published online: 04 Sep 2023

Authors: Maller, C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

This special feature concerns understanding human-nature relations through the lens of values to comprehend how values of the natural world connect wi...

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A global analysis of factors predicting conservationists' values.

Published online: 23 Nov 2022

Authors: Luque-Lora, R. & Keane, A. & Fisher, J. A. & Holmes, G. & Sandbrook, C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

There exists a wealth of philosophical, sociological and anthropological literature on environmental values; yet, few studies have investigated the va...

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On the links between nature's values and language.

Published online: 11 Aug 2023

Authors: Inglis, D. & Pascual, U.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Recent research into the plural values about nature is focusing on relational values as a concept through which to better understand the breadth and i...

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Coastal transformations and connections: revealing values through the community voice method.

Published online: 14 Aug 2023

Authors: Acott, T. G. & Willis, C. & Ranger, S. & Cumming, G. & Richardson, P. & O'Neill, R. & Ford, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

A wealth of evidence suggests an important relationship between nature and human health and well-being and this appears to hold particular resonance f...

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Connecting spirituality, identity, and other intangibles to ecosystem decision-making.

Published online: 04 Nov 2020

Authors: Gould, R. & Morse, J. & Adams, A.

Content type: Blog

This paper explores how research on cultural ecosystem services (intangible connections and values related to beauty, heritage, identity and spiritual...

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How creativity can help research on the multiple values of nature become more innovative and inclusive.

Published online: 11 Aug 2023

Authors: Gould, R. K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

The global environmental situation presents humans with challenges of unprecedented complexity, and research into the multiple values of nature aims t...

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