Relationship between Environmental Values and the Evaluation of Watershed Conservation Plans that Benefit the Community Versus the Individual

Abstract

AbstractPrevious work has shown that human values can directly affect behavior and decision-making. Here, we investigated how the four human values thought to underlie environmental beliefs and behaviors (altruistic, biospheric, egoistic, and hedonic) ...Practical ApplicationsThis study shows how people’s values impact their opinions when evaluating conservation plans. The research investigated how different values, such as a focus on caring for others (altruistic), consideration for nature (biospheric), ...