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 …

To develop and apply goals for future sustainability, we must consider what people care
about and what motivates them to engage in solving sustainability issues. Sense of place …

The values (ie, importance) that people place on ecosystems have been identified as a
crucial dimension of sustainable management of social-ecological systems. Recently, the …

Debates about environmental values and valuation are perplexing, in part because these
terms are used in vastly different ways in a variety of contexts. For some, quantifying human …

Rural population in China has undergone dramatic changes driven by large-scale
industrialization and urbanization. However, under the current land system, it is difficult to …

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

Values have been recognized as critical leverage points for sustainability transformations.
However, there is limited evidence unpacking which types of values are associated with …

This study aimed to explore the relationship between place attachment and environmentally
responsible behavior, and to verify the mediating role of destination psychological …

Sense of place and values are concepts that have been defined in a multiplicity of ways by a
variety of disciplines and seldom approached in combination within studies of place-based …

We live in a human-dominated world and the pace and scale of changes to the biosphere,
from climate change to landuse change, are staggering. Accelerated socio-economic …