TY - JOUR
T1 - Valuing beyond economics: a pluralistic evaluation framework for participatory policy-making
AU - Gunton, Richard
AU - Basden, Andrew
AU - Hejnowicz, Adam
AU - van Asperen, Eline
AU - Christie, Ian
AU - Hanson, David
AU - Hartley, Sue
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was begun while RG held a fellowship with the Centre for Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus, an ESRC large centre (ES/N012550/1). AH is CECAN post-doctoral fellow and IC and SH are CECAN Co-Investigators.
PY - 2022/4/2
Y1 - 2022/4/2
N2 - The sustainability challenges facing societies call for policies and governance systems that are attuned to the diversity of goods that support and enrich human life via ecological, technical and other kinds of systems, and to the plurality of values that people hold across diverse cultures and belief systems. A pluralistic evaluation framework (PEF) is here presented as a tool for considering diverse kinds of goodness as perceived by diverse stakeholders in the design and evaluation of policies or projects. It arises from considering a suite of aspects of meaning (biotic, economic, aesthetic, etc.) at each of three stages, namely: identifying relevant stakeholders, mapping real-world systems and assessing modes of valuing. This framework, drawing on the philosophical work of Herman Dooyeweerd and Dirk Vollenhoven, offers a joined-up, participatory approach to policymaking. We report pilot trials of the PEF with groups of policymakers at a series of workshops, demonstrating that it provides additional perspectives and unification of core issues and can be used in a wide range of areas of policymaking and project assessment. We also illustrate its potential application to a controversial environmental project and outline how a pluralistic evaluation framework can be used in tandem with existing frameworks.
AB - The sustainability challenges facing societies call for policies and governance systems that are attuned to the diversity of goods that support and enrich human life via ecological, technical and other kinds of systems, and to the plurality of values that people hold across diverse cultures and belief systems. A pluralistic evaluation framework (PEF) is here presented as a tool for considering diverse kinds of goodness as perceived by diverse stakeholders in the design and evaluation of policies or projects. It arises from considering a suite of aspects of meaning (biotic, economic, aesthetic, etc.) at each of three stages, namely: identifying relevant stakeholders, mapping real-world systems and assessing modes of valuing. This framework, drawing on the philosophical work of Herman Dooyeweerd and Dirk Vollenhoven, offers a joined-up, participatory approach to policymaking. We report pilot trials of the PEF with groups of policymakers at a series of workshops, demonstrating that it provides additional perspectives and unification of core issues and can be used in a wide range of areas of policymaking and project assessment. We also illustrate its potential application to a controversial environmental project and outline how a pluralistic evaluation framework can be used in tandem with existing frameworks.
KW - Policy
KW - Process
KW - Reformational philosophy
KW - Social-ecological system
KW - Stakeholder engagement
KW - Value
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2022.107420
DO - 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2022.107420
M3 - Article
VL - 196
SP - 107420
JO - Ecological Economics
JF - Ecological Economics
SN - 0921-8009
M1 - 107420
ER -