The lack of progress in reversing the declining global trend in biodiversity is partly due to a
mismatch between how living nature is conceived and valued by the conservation …

Highlights•Relational and instrumental rationality coexist in human decision-
making.•Instrumental views on decision-making are embedded in relational …

Plural valuation is about eliciting the diverse values of nature articulated by different
stakeholders in order to inform decision making and thus achieve more equitable and …

Abstract The Nature's Contributions to People (NCP) approach, developed as theoretical
backdrop for the assessments of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on …

The burgeoning literature on sustainability transformation agrees that values play a key,
albeit unelucidated, role on the transformation research agenda. Recent literature linking …

Transdisciplinary research often utilizes collaborative ways of knowledge production to
enable deliberate transformations towards sustainability. Multiple concepts with varying …

Abstract Agricultural Research Organisations (AROs) are being urgently called to provide
solutions for agri-food system transformation. However, contrasting visions of how …

There is broad agreement on the potential role of values to incite intentional transformative
change toward sustainability. However, there is no proposed heuristic on how to mobilize …

In the past 5 years, scholarly and policy attention to relational values, a concept that
articulates plural values of nature, has grown steadily. To date, there are no published …

Decades of theory and scholarship on the concept of human well‐being have informed a
proliferation of approaches to assess well‐being and support public policy aimed at …