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

Aiming at just and sustainable futures for biodiversity conservation requires clarity
concerning how justice relates to the diverse values of nature. By drawing upon and …

The potential for Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs to integrate nature's
diverse values into decision-making, and thereby support broader transformative change, is …

Highlights•Many papers in the nature valuation literature do not meet justice standards.•Very
few papers provide information about the distributive outcomes of interventions.•Valuation …

This paper critically examines the current political context in which valuation studies of
nature are undertaken. It challenges the belief that somehow, more and technically better …

Highlights•Peatlands are a last frontier for migrant-based industrial agriculture
expansion.•Drainage of peatlands caused fire risk, haze and health costs, and policy …

Highlights•Large-scale oil palm monoculture production in tropical forest habitats meets
strong objections.•Instrumental, relational and intrinsic values of nature are at risk.•The oil …

As countries consider new area-based conservation targets under the Convention on
Biological Diversity, protected areas (PAs) and their impacts on people and nature are …

Sustaining the organisms, ecosystems and processes that underpin human wellbeing is
necessary to achieve sustainable development. Here we define critical natural assets as the …

Large infrastructure projects generate irreducible trade-offs between different societal values
towards nature. We asked what kinds of values and knowledges are articulated in decision …