The Branching Out Values Framework: the Life of Trees
11:00am – 12:00pm, 8 December 2022
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This seminar will explore how the Branching Out project is applying the interdisciplinary values framework recently adopted by IPBES to urban trees and treescapes. This framework presents four life frames that reflect the richness of how humans relate with nature: where people live from nature, live in nature, live with nature, and live as nature.
Researchers Jasper Kenter and Joanne Morris will discuss the iterative process of using this framework to build and revise a set of values and indicators for urban trees through literature review and deliberation with an end user panel, citizen panel, interdisciplinary team members and stories from the past, present and future.
Ultimately, the framework should underpin a suite of practical policy tools and guidance for better integrating social and cultural values of treescapes into decisions.
Speakers
Jasper Kenter is a Professorial Research Fellow at Aberystwyth University and Director of Ecologos Research Ltd. He is an ecological economist with a particular interest in how social processes shape values and in the ways we can integrate economic and deliberative methodologies to better incorporate shared values of nature into decision-making. His values research links economics, ecology, ethics, psychology and spiritual practice. He also works more broadly on new economic approaches that focus on holistic well-being for people and the planet. Jasper is a Lead Author of the IPBES Values Assessment, PI for the Global Assessment for New Economics, and editor of Sustainability Science. He is also an interfaith minister and psychospiritual counsellor.
Joanne Morris is a Research Associate at the Stockholm Environment Institute at the University of York. She is a sustainability scientist with an interest in how natural resource management, be it in agriculture or urban treescapes, is negotiated among multiple stakeholders to create pathways or strategies towards sustainable natural resource management that reflect multiple interests and values. She is also interested in how social and cultural values can be incorporated into models, and how models support – or hinder – shared learning.
Who should attend?
This talk is part of the UK Treescapes Seminar series. The series provides timely information to policymakers and stakeholders of the Future of UK Treescapes Programme about the research being undertaken in the programme’s projects.
Our stakeholders include NGOs, Local community groups, Landowners, Community Forests, Tree Officers, Forest Managers, National Parks, Forest industry and General Public.
Please note this event will be hosted online and will be recorded and made available for those who cannot attend.