The ‘civic-transformative’ value of urban street trees

Harrison, O. ORCID: 0000-0002-7869-671X, 2023. The ‘civic-transformative’ value of urban street trees. Environmental Values. ISSN 0963-2719

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Abstract

Urban street trees (USTs) have a range of values – some of which are easier to quantify than others. Focusing specifically on the UK context and using the Sheffield Tree Protests (2012-) as a case study, whilst confirming existing research as to the variety of values associated with their specifically ‘cultural’ services, the article argues that USTs have an additional potential form – what I call ‘civic-transformative value’. This form of value has at least three key characteristics. Firstly, it is place-based and communal; second, its form is ‘relational’; and finally, as intrinsically contingent, it is pluralistic in the sense that its civic-transformative potential is dependent on successfully integrating a range of other values. The article emphasises both the possibility and necessity of ‘convergence’ – i.e., a pluralistic and pragmatic alliance of values which might help protect not only USTs, but other embattled sites of nature.

Item Type: Journal article
Publication Title: Environmental Values
Creators: Harrison, O.
Publisher: Sage
Date: 8 December 2023
ISSN: 0963-2719
Identifiers:
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10.1177/09632719231180306DOI
1850739Other
Divisions: Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by: Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added: 12 Mar 2024 13:42
Last Modified: 12 Mar 2024 13:42
URI: https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/51058

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