Highlights•The relational nature of valuation and the specific content of valuation are
distinguished.•As contents of valuation, instrumental and relational values are different with …

Highlights•Relational values, such as care, animate stewardship action.•Care is emergent
from social-ecological relations.•Care is embodied and practiced.•Care is situated and …

The environmental crises currently gripping the Earth have been codified in a new proposed
geological epoch: the Anthropocene. This epoch, according to the Anthropocene Working …

In sustainability science, revising the paradigms that separate humans from nature is
considered a powerful 'leverage point'in pursuit of transformations. The coupled social …

To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is care? A
moral obligation? A burden? A joy? Is it only human? In Matters of Care, María Puig de la …

Around the globe, unfettered industrialisation has marched forth in unison with massive
social inequities. Making matters worse, anthropogenic pressures on Earth's living systems …

Highlights•Caring for nature is a fundamental other-regarding relation.•Caring refers to
relational values constitutive for living of a truly human life.•Several approaches already …

The concept of ecosystem services is becoming increasingly influential in environmental
research and policy–reshaping human–environment interactions. In this paper, we trace the …

Why talk of indigeneity rather than of Indigenous peoples? This report examines the critical
purchase on questions of inequality, subjectivity and power offered by critical geographies of …

Cultural ecosystem services (CES)–the non-material benefits realized through human-
environmental interactions–contribute to ecosystem service assessments by revealing key …