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Values are considered by many people to be central to human interactions, yet the meaning of “values” is rarely clear in most applications. We offer our thoughts on how values might be usefully construed in a policy context, with relevance to design and appraisal of social and decision-making processes. We differentiate values from preferences, attitudes, worldviews, and interests because of the extent to which this surrounding field of concepts has been contested by sociologists and psychologists, and to highlight the comparative utility of focusing on values. We find it useful to apply the term “values” to the fundamental and abiding non-linguistic ways that people orient to the world, arising from antecedent attraction. Shalom Schwartz and Harold Lasswell developed values schema which, when used together, constitute a powerful frame for generating insights about human behaviors and decision-making in specific contexts. Schwartz posited the values of universalism, benevolence, self-direction, stimulation, hedonism, achievement, power, security, conformity, and tradition. Lasswell posited the related values of rectitude, respect, affection, enlightenment, skill, power, wealth, and well-being. We illustrate the utility of a values frame through an appraisal of social and decision-making processes in the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program.

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  1. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Southwest Biological Science Center, Northern Arizona University, 5614, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011, USA

    David Mattson

  2. Department of Natural Resources and Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA

    Herman Karl

  3. Institution for Social & Policy Studies, Yale University – Kroon Hall, 195 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA

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Mattson, D., Karl, H., Clark, S. (2012). Values in Natural Resource Management and Policy. In: Karl, H., Scarlett, L., Vargas-Moreno, J., Flaxman, M. (eds) Restoring Lands - Coordinating Science, Politics and Action. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2549-2_12

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