The ‘civic-transformative’ value of urban street trees

Harrison, O ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:	Number Type 10.1177/09632719231180306 DOI 1850739 Other
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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