Kendal_et_al_2015

Dave Kendal, Rebecca M Ford, Nerida M Anderson, Alison Farrar (2015). The VALS: A new tool to measure people’s general valued attributes of landscapes. Journal of Environmental Management, 163:224-233, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.08.017.

Keywords: values, perceptions, methods

  • attempt to make a more broad, usable general survey instrument that captures people’s values without being too place-specific or limited to experts or the public
  • attempts to link theoretical understanding of values to policymaker and land manager understandings of values
  •   managers and residents have very different understandings of 'values' and to make it into policy, value-based studies have to speak to manager experience/knowledge
  •   social scientists/psychologists also have very different approach to values
  •   valued attributes is a coined term that is integrating values in the environment into psychological understanding of value
  •   importance of attributes measured on a 7-point Likert scale, 24 item scale
  •   consistent scale of importance allows factors in the scale to be comparable
  •   scores were standardized (0-1) prior to analysis
  •   used factor analysis on the separate scales to find minimum residual solution