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Overview of Different Types of Values 0011 0010 1010 1101 0001 0100 1011 1 2 4 What I’m Going to Do 0011 0010 1010 1101 0001 0100 1011 • Discuss Different Values • Ask LOTS of Questions • Get You to Think of the Answers 1 2 4 Value 0011 0010 1010 1101 0001 0100 1011 • Social -- the principles, standards, or quality which guides human actions • Economic -- the market or estimated worth of commodities 1 2 4 Social Values 0011 0010 1010 1101 0001 0100 1011 • The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable 1 2 4 From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Values Social Values 0011 0010 1010 1101(positive 0001 0100 1011 that renders something desirable or • The quality or negative) valuable • Principles, standards or qualities considered worthwhile or desirable by the person who holds them. 1 2 4 From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Values Social Values 0011 0010 1010 1101(positive 0001 0100 1011 that renders something desirable or • The quality or negative) valuable • Principles, standards or qualities considered worthwhile or desirable by the person who holds them. 1 2 • Those qualities of behavior, thought, and character that society regards as being intrinsically good, having desirable results, and worthy of emulation by others. 4 From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Values Social Values • The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable 0011 0010 1010 1101 0001 0100 1011 • Principles, standards or qualities considered worthwhile or desirable by the person who holds them. • Those qualities of behavior, thought, and character that society regards as being intrinsically good, having desirable results, and worthy of emulation by others. • Values are our subjective reactions to the world around us. They guide and mold our options and behavior. Values have three important characteristics. 1 2 4 – Developed early in life and are very resistant to change. – Define what is right and what is wrong. – Cannot be proved correct or incorrect, valid or invalid, right or wrong. Values tell what we should believe, regardless of any evidence or lack thereof. From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Values Economic Values 0011 0010 1010 1101 0001 0100 1011 • Does Price = Value? • Assumes perfectly competitive market – – – – – Many buyers and sellers Perfect knowledge Homogeneous products All resources are mobile Free entry/exit from market 1 2 4 Social and Economic Value 0011 0010 1010 1101 0001 0100 1011 • How well does Market Price approximate Economic Value? • Does Social Value equal Economic Value? • How do we reconcile? • Economists use Willingness-to-Pay to approximate value, what do sociologists use? 1 2 4 Different Values 0011 0010 1010 1101 0001 0100 1011 • • • • Market and Nonmarket Use and Nonuse Option, Bequest, Existence Economic and Social 1 2 4 – Is economic value a subset of social value? Why are Values Important? 0011 0010 1010 1101 0001 0100 1011 • Why do agencies want to know values of ecosystem services? • Allocation of their scarce resources (labor and capital) to provide the mix of goods and services society values. 1 2 4 Allocation 0011 0010 1010 1101 0001 0100 1011 • How do you weight different uses? • Market goods and services – relative prices give weights • Weights change • Nonmarket goods and services 1 – What weights – How comparable 2 4 Wallowa-Whitman National Forest 0011 0010 1010 1101 0001 0100 1011 1 2 4 How much wilderness is enough? 0011 0010 1010 1101 0001 0100 1011 • Society “values” wilderness characteristics • First Wilderness Area (best characteristics) designated – most valuable • Is the next area as valuable to society? • How about the next? And the one after that? 1 2 4 Areas with Wilderness Potential 0011 0010 1010 1101 0001 0100 1011 • Alternative uses – Wilderness – Backcountry recreation – Development 1 2 4 • How do you decide which values are most important? • Marginal valuation To Subdivide or Not 0011 0010 1010 1101 0001 0100 1011 1 2 4 Ranchettes 0011 0010 1010 1101 0001 0100 1011 • Know there is a market value for the small acreage parcel • Know there is a desire to not have land broken up 1 2 4 – Market value of intact area – Social values – Values placed on Ecological characteristics Ranchettes 0011 0010 1010 1101 0001 0100 1011 • So which set of values dominate? • Why would the landowner enter into a conservation easement? • Is it only $ of the easement? • Is location important? Timing? 1 2 4 Choices 0011 0010 1010 1101 0001 0100 1011 1 This or This? 2 4 Questions to Ponder 0011 0010 1010 1101 0001 0100 1011 • Can you add up market and nonmarket values? • How much wilderness (biodiversity, water quality) is enough? • If fishing in the trout pond outside the lodge is worth $X, is all fishing worth $X? • Does everything have to put in dollar terms? 1 2 4 Questions to Ponder 0011 0010 1010 1101 0001 0100 1011 • What is the trade-off between a tangible (market) good and an intangible (nonmarket) service if they are competitive? Antagonistic? 1 2 4 Questions to Ponder 0011 0010 1010 1101 0001 0100 1011 • How do you compare an economic value expressed in $ with a social value expressed in “I want more …”? • Which one affects ecological processes more? 1 2 4 Indicators and Values 0011 0010 1010 1101 0001 0100 1011 27. Value of forage harvested from rangeland by livestock 28. Value of production of non-livestock products produced from rangeland 54. Public beliefs, attitudes, and behavioral intentions towards natural resources 1 2 4 Adding Up 0011 0010 1010 1101 0001 0100 1011 • Discussed many times – How do we avoid double, triple, quadruple counting? • Is that important for the Indicator work? • Do we really need a common metric ($)? • What do private landowners and public land managers respond to? 1 – What values are important? 2 4 Adding Up 0011 0010 1010 1101 0001 0100 1011 • In terms of conceptual model – Ecosystem Services used – Some have $ values, others just social values 1 2 • Important issues are whether either value affects the ecological or human subsystems and how • Are “market” imperfections the cause? 4 Values and SRR 0011 0010 1010 1101 0001 0100 1011 • Back to the beginning! • Indicators meant to be “valueless” – things we monitor • Common data set that each individual will view differently depending on their own value set 1 2 4