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To demonstrate the feasibility of estimating a social tariff free of utility curvature and probability weighting biases and to test transferability between riskless and risky contexts. Valuations for a selection of EQ-5D-3L health states were collected from a large and representative sample (N = 1676) of the Spanish general population through computer-assisted personal interviewing. Two elicitation methods were used: the traditional time trade-off (TTO) and a novel risky-TTO procedure. Both methods are equivalent for better than death states, which allowed us to test transferability of utilities across riskless and risky contexts. Corrective procedures applied are based on rank-dependent utility theory, identifying parameter estimates at the individual level. All corrections are health-state specific, which is a unique feature of our corrective approach. Two corrected value sets for the EQ-5D-3L system are estimated, highlighting the feasibility of developing national tariffs under nonexpected utility theories, such as rank-dependent utility. Furthermore, transferability was not supported for at least half of the health states valued by our sample. It is feasible to estimate a social tariff by using interviewing techniques, sample sizes, and sample representativeness equivalent to prior studies designed to generate national value sets for the EQ-5D. Utilities obtained in distinct contexts may not be interchangeable. Our findings caution against routinely taking transferability of utility for granted. • To date there is no national social tariff or value set fully corrected under nonexpected utility assumptions. • This article presents 2 value sets for the EQ-5D-3L system estimated by applying corrections based on rank-dependent utility theory, identifying parameter estimates at individual level. All corrections done are health-state specific, which is a unique feature of our corrective approach. These findings highlight the feasibility of developing national tariffs under nonexpected utility theories. • Our results suggest that utilities obtained in distinct contexts may not be interchangeable. Transferability across riskless and risky domains was not supported for at least half of the health states valued by our sample. Consequently, it seems that ensuring tariffs are not context dependent is as relevant and challenging as correcting value sets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Food FARMacy is a clinical-community emergency food assistance program developed in response to food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Few qualitative studies have examined participant, and clinical and community stakeholder experiences with these food assistance programs. To examine the motivations, experiences, and perceptions of Food FARMacy participants and program stakeholders. A qualitative study using in-depth interviews between March 2021 and July 2021. Twenty-four Food FARMacy participants and 10 program stakeholders in New York, NY (Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens) older than age 18 years were interviewed. Interviews were recorded, transcribed, translated, and analyzed using thematic analysis. Participant and program stakeholder interviews were analyzed separately. Themes that were salient in both groups were combined for reporting. Both program participants and stakeholders perceived: pandemic-related demands combined with reduced resources motivated participation; convenience, safety, and ease of access facilitated program retention; participants valued fresh produce and diversity of foods; the program improved diet and health; minimizing food waste was a priority; and social cohesion was an unexpected program benefit. Two additional themes among only program stakeholders also were identified: aligned values, flexibility, and communication were key to successful partnerships; and trust between community partners and community members drove programmatic success. Results suggest that a multisite clinical-community partnership to provide emergency food assistance in New York City can be leveraged to reduce barriers to healthy food access and address food insecurity during crises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies a model of network formation in which agents create links following a simple heuristic — they invest their limited resources proportionally more in neighbours who have fewer links. This decision rule captures the notion that when considering social value more connected agents are on average less beneficial as neighbours and node degree is a useful proxy when payoffs are difficult to compute. The decision rule illustrates an externalities effect whereby an agent's actions also influence his neighbours' neighbours. Besides complete networks and fragmented networks with complete components, the pairwise stable networks produced by this model include many non-standard ones with characteristics observed in real life networks like clustering and irregular components. Multiple stable states can develop from the same initial structure — the stable networks could have cliques linked by intermediary agents while sometimes they have a core–periphery structure. The observed pairwise stable networks have close to optimal welfare. This limited loss of welfare is due to the fact that when a link is established, this is beneficial to the linking agents, but makes them less attractive as neighbours for others, thereby partially internalising the externalities the new connection has generated. • A network formation model of heuristic allocation of scarce resources is proposed. • Besides networks of complete components, many non-standard networks are pairwise stable. • The observed pairwise stable networks have close to optimal welfare. • The pairwise stable networks exhibit clustering and can have irregular components. • The stable networks can have cliques linked by intermediaries or a core–periphery structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There seems to be an emerging consensus among many philosophers of science that non-epistemic values ought to play a role in the process of scientific reasoning itself. Recently, a number of philosophers have focused on the role of values in scientific classification or taxonomy. Their claim is that a choice of ontology or taxonomic scheme can only be made, or should only be made, by appealing to non-epistemic or social values. In this paper, I take on this "argument from ontological choice," claiming that it equivocates on the notion of choice. An ontological choice can be understood either in terms of determining which taxonomic scheme is valid, or in terms of deciding which taxonomic scheme to deploy in a given context. I try to show that while the latter can be determined in part by social values, the former ought not to be so determined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social innovation is often presented as a fashion or a trend in the world of business and management. However, it is important to note that it is much more than just a passing mode. It is usually classified as a way to boost the competitiveness and profitability of the social organizations, or a way to generate their value. For cooperatives, social innovation concerns more social and environmental issues. A perception that remains very limited given the managerial changes and organizational transitions of these cooperatives. Hence the need to develop a wider spectrum of reflection in terms of the value created by social innovation. Furthermore, the main objective of this communication is to model the conciliation between social innovation and value in cooperatives. In other words, the authors tried to pinpoint the concept of value in social organizations and study the impacts of social innovation on this value. To do so, the authors conducted a text mining analysis referring to 510 articles from Scopus engine by using IRaMuteQ 0.7 alpha 2 software. The results of this communication reveal a typology three categories of social value (economic, social, and organizational) and present a model describing the contribution of social innovation to value in cooperatives. This communication remains a reflection on modeling the complexity of the existing relationships between social innovation and value in cooperatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Adolescents growing up in the 21st century face novel challenges that affect today's adolescents differently compared with previous generations. Adolescents' prosocial values and social engagement can contribute in unique ways to combatting societal challenges. Participatory research provides tools to transform adolescents' prosocial motivations into drivers for societal change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Investment in public health has far-reaching impacts, not only on physical health but also on communities, economies and the environment. There is increasing demand to account for the wider impact of public health and the social value that can be created, which can be captured through the use of the social return on investment (SROI) framework. This study aims to explore the application of SROI and identify areas of advancement for its use in public health. Publically available SROI studies of public health interventions previously identified through published systematic scoping reviews were examined through a methodological lens. This was complemented by semistructured interviews with key public health academic experts with experience in the field of SROI. The results were thematically analysed and triangulated. In total, 53 studies and nine interviews were included in the analysis. All interviewees agreed that SROI is a suitable framework to demonstrate the social value of public health interventions. Developmental aspects were also identified through the analysis. This included a more systematic use of SROI principles and methodological developments. Lastly, it was identified that further advancements were needed to promote awareness of SROI and how it can be used to generate investment. By identifying key areas for advancement, the results from this study can be used to further refine the SROI framework for use within the speciality to promote investment in services and interventions that demonstrate maximum value to people, communities, economies and the environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• This paper discusses and addresses the main challenges of evaluating the socio-economic impact of high-tech public infrastructures using Earth observations (EO). • The EO infrastructure employs an array of cutting-edge technologies that ultimately contribute to understanding, analysing and managing different natural and societal aspects of Earth with a tremendous socio-economic impact on current and future generations. However, this impact is challenging to understand and quantify. • This paper reviews the current fragmented literature on the socio-economic impact of high-tech infrastructure and builds on a new stream of studies on the cost–benefit analysis of large-scale research science-based infrastructures and on investing in the space economy. • This new evaluation framework estimates EO infrastructures' benefits from the perspective of different types of social agents, directly or indirectly involved, along the value chain. • The framework can be adapted to estimate the socio-economic returns of other high-tech infrastructure investments. This paper addresses the main challenges of evaluating the socio-economic impact of high-tech infrastructures, using Earth observation (EO) as an example. EO is a critical domain of the space economy, providing valuable insights into planet Earth's natural and societal aspects. As national agencies invest in high-tech infrastructures like EO, there is a growing need for evaluate their socio-economic returns (not to be confused with their financial returns). However, there is no clear consensus on how to assess such social impact. Building on a new field of studies of social cost–benefit analysis of research infrastructures and the socio-economic impact of investment in the space economy, we propose a new evaluation framework that considers the various stakeholders along the EO value chain. This approach can be adapted to evaluate the socio-economic returns of other high-tech public infrastructures, such as telescopes, particle accelerators, genomic platforms, synchrotron light sources, supercomputers and cloud infrastructures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While welfarist economics (WE) methods rely wholly on individuals' valuations, extra-welfarist (EW) methods seek alternative measures of value. Major reviews of the EW literature conclude that EW studies almost universally replace "utility" with "health" as the maximand. This analysis seeks to understand what conclusions are necessary and sufficient to make EW and WE methods concurrent and discusses implications for measuring social value. Using standard WE methods, I demonstrate that EW is equivalent to WE with 2 key restrictions—individuals have constant returns to health in producing utility and health budgets are fixed. Fixing budgets removes a key WE step, determining the marginal rate of substitution between consumption and health, the willingness to pay for health gains. Because EW methods equate with WE with these 2 restrictions, I show how formal models to construct aggregated social welfare functions (SWFs) in WE frameworks lead directly to SWF models using EW models of value. I also show that, in fixed-budget health systems, when SWFs place different values for improving health of different subpopulations, aggregate health output fails as a SWF criterion. I demonstrate how different societal values can and should enter EW SWF models using WE criteria. I also discuss the implications when either of these key restrictions does not properly represent people's preferences. Once EW methods are shown to be a restricted form of WE methods, those WE methods can illuminate how best to measure SWFs in EW environments. • Extra-welfarist (EW) economics eschews using individuals' own utilities, the only proper value measure in standard welfarist economics (WE). By far the most common practice in EW replaces "utility" with "health" to measure of value. This analysis focuses on that specific definition of EW. Proof is given that EW then coincides with WE when constant return to health and fixed budgets are assumed, which are the necessary and sufficient restrictions to make WE and EW equivalent. • Proper WE social welfare functions (SWFs) are restricted to linear weighted sums of individual utilities, in which the weights come from political or ethical but not economic analyses. In cases which WE and EW are equivalent, these same WE approaches guide the proper construction of EW SWFs. When "health" is the maximand, and every person has equal weight in the SWF, this justifies maximizing total population health within a fixed healthcare system budget. • Proof is given that use of standard incremental cost-effectiveness analysis achieves this goal. However, if different societal members have different SWF function weights, for example, by sex, income, or racial disparities, then maximizing SWFs requires measuring actual amounts interventions used and their marginal productivity on each relevant subgroup. If "health" is not the sole maximand, more-complex methods are required to measure total social welfare. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A major strategy to reduce the impact of breast cancer (BC) among African Americans (AA) is patient navigation, defined here as individualized assistance for reducing barriers to healthcare use. The primary focus of this study was to estimate the added value of incorporating breast health promotion by navigated participants and the subsequent BC screenings that network members may obtain. In this study, we compared the cost-effectiveness of navigation across 2 scenarios. First, we examine the effect of navigation on AA participants (scenario 1). Second, we examine the effect of navigation on AA participants and their networks (scenario 2). We leverage data from multiple studies in South Chicago. Our primary outcome (BC screening) is intermediate, given limited available quantitative data on the long-term benefits of BC screening for AA populations. When considering participant effects alone (scenario 1), the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio was $3845 per additional screening mammogram. When including participant and network effects (scenario 2), the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio was $1098 per additional screening mammogram. Our findings suggest that inclusion of network effects can contribute to a more precise, comprehensive assessment of interventions for underserved communities. • Social network methods are useful tools that have the potential to improve cost estimation about navigation and other interventions. • This article leverages a patient navigation study for improving breast health among African American women in Chicago to assess the utility of applying social network approaches for economic evaluation. • Our work highlights that integration of social network and economic evaluation methods may provide comprehensive, precise assessments for informed healthcare-related decision making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For many abilities, such as vision or language, our conscious experience is one of simplicity: We open our eyes and the world appears; we open our mouths and grammatical sentences tumble out. Yet these abilities rely on immensely complex, unconscious computations. Is this also true of abilities related to cooperation or competition, like deciding whether to share food or spread gossip? We tested whether decisions like these are guided by precise psychological variables, called welfare tradeoff ratios. Welfare tradeoff ratios summarize information about multiple sources of social value (such as whether a specific other person is kin or is generous with the self) along with information about the situation (such as what's at stake or who else is watching). We evaluated these hypothesized variables in four societies: among college students in the USA and Argentina and among two groups of Amazonian forager-horticulturalists, the Shuar of Ecuador and the Tsimane of Bolivia (n s = 167, 131, 73, 23). In all societies people made a series of hypothetical decisions where they had to weigh help or harm for themselves versus others. We found strong evidence that people trade off their welfare for others with consistency—a signature of decisions being guided by precise variables in the mind. We also found evidence in three of the societies that people discriminate among different categories of others in their welfare tradeoffs (e.g., friends versus acquaintances). Although most decisions about helping or harming feel simple and intuitive, they appear to be underwritten by precise computations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Family meals are associated with several health benefits, including better diet quality and healthier weight status among youth. Factors beyond the foods served at meals are important in the associations between family meals and nutrition-related outcomes, and how families eat together may be as important as how often. Examining values around mealtime behaviors is an important first step towards understanding family choices about meals. The objective of this study was to characterize values around family meals for families with school-aged children participating in youth sports. An online survey was completed by parents (n=172) of current youth recreational sport participants, ages 8-12 years. Parents were recruited from 4 youth sport organizations and were primarily female (80%) and white (85%). Most parents worked full-time (64%) and were from two-parent households (89%). Using an online survey, participants responded to 20 statements reflecting different characteristics of the family meal. Participants rated each statement as "very important", "somewhat important", or "not at all important". Principal Components Analysis (PCA) with Promax rotation was used to identify key factors (loading >.5) that help to explain values around family mealtimes. PCA highlighted 4 factors explaining 55.4% of the total variance. Factors were defined as Nutritional Quality, Connectedness, Structure, and Pleasantness, and explained 25.8%, 13.8%, 8.2%, and 7.6% of the variance, respectively. Statements correlated with Nutritional Quality reflected valuing meals prepared at home and limiting pre-prepared food and eating out; Connectedness reflected valuing eating together, and parents and children connecting during the meal; Structure reflected valuing everyone eating the same meal at the table; and Pleasantness reflected valuing enjoyable conversation and not rushing through the meal. Parents value nutrition, connectedness, structure, and pleasantness when it comes to family meals. Future work is needed to understand whether efforts to serve meals aligned with these values are complicated on evenings with youth sport activities. None [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Do investors invest in green projects because they expect higher returns, to help the environment, or to help other people? To separate these motivations, we run a decision experiment in which crowdfunders choose between a higher return or a positive environmental impact, and between a higher return or a positive social impact. A majority of investors choose environmental and social impact over higher returns, conditional on large enough impact. Combining the experimental data with historical investments, we find that investors allocate a larger share of funds to green projects if they value environmental impact more and if they expect a higher return, but not if they value social impact more, all else equal. These findings suggest that investors have a preference for positive environmental impact, and satisfy it by investing in green projects. Finally, we introduce new survey measures of impact for future use, which are experimentally validated and predict field behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Healthcare systems' reliance on taxes varies across countries with corresponding heterogeneity in public's willingness to pay taxes (WTP) for national healthcare provision. Turkey, a developing country that witnessed a major healthcare transformation, provides a unique context to understand what motivates WTP in a non-Western context. This is a cross-sectional study. We used the data from the International Social Survey Programme module on health and healthcare in Turkey. The data were collected from a nationally representative sample of adults aged >18 years (n = 1559). Using logistic regression models, we examine the association of sociopolitical values and sociodemographic factors with individuals' WTP to improve public healthcare. We find that sociopolitical values are more closely associated to the WTP in Turkey compared with sociodemographic factors. However, egalitarianism and humanitarianism were differentially linked to the WTP. Humanitarianism was positively associated, whereas egalitarianism was negatively associated with WTP. This study shows the prevalence of value-based approach to healthcare provision support in a developing country in the height of healthcare reforms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Speeding is an important cause of crashes and is more frequent among males than females. • We investigated gender social norms of judgment about speeding in two studies. • Speeding is valued more on the social utility dimension than the desirability-one. • Males less valuate speed limit compliance than females on social desirability. • The representation of the compliant driver should be improved, especially among males. Introduction : Among risky driving behaviors, speeding is a main causal and aggravating factor of road crashes and is more frequent among males than females. Research suggests that this gender gap could be explained by gender social norms that lead males to assign more social value to speeding than females. However, few studies have proposed directly investigating gendered prescriptive norms associated with speeding. We propose to address this gap through two studies based on the socio-cognitive approach to social norms of judgment. Methods: Study 1 (N = 128, within-subject design) investigated the extent to which speeding is subject to social valuation among males, compared to females, through a self-presentation task. Study 2 (N = 885, between-subject design) aimed to identify the dimension of social value (i.e., social desirability, social utility) that both genders associate with speeding, based on a judgment task. Results and conclusion : Although results of study 1 indicate that both genders devaluate speeding and valuate speed limits compliance, we found that males do so to a lesser extent than females. Results of study 2 further suggest that males less valuate speed limit compliance than females on the social desirability dimension, while no gender difference were found in valuation of speeding on both dimensions of social value. Regardless of gender, results also indicate that speeding is valued more on the social utility than on the social desirability dimension, while speed limit compliance is valued similarly on both dimensions. Practical applications : Road safety campaigns toward males could benefit to focus more on enhancing the representations of speed compliant drivers, in terms of social desirability, than devaluing the representation of speeding drivers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on leveraging branding strategies, traditionally applied in business, to enhance pediatric residency program recruitment. Topics include the importance of core values in developing brand identity, the use of branding to navigate virtual recruitment challenges amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and a comprehensive guide on creating a brand message, experience, and auditing process to attract and retain the best-fit candidates for residency programs.

This study was designed to explore the effects of strategic CSR conformity and technological innovation activities on the market value of Korean manufacturing firms. We proposed a research model based on resource-based, stakeholder, and institutional theories to examine the main effects of technological innovation activities and strategic CSR conformity, as well as their interaction effect on firm value. The findings showed that technological innovation activities have a significant positive impact on the firm value, whereas strategic CSR conformity does not. They also presented that the interaction between technological innovation activities and strategic CSR conformity had a negative effect on firm value, contrary to what was expected in hypothesis 3. Thus, further analysis was performed by dividing the sample into two subgroups: the upper group (above the mean) and the lower group (below the mean). The results showed that the interaction effect between strategic CSR and technological innovation activities had a significant positive impact on the market value of Korean manufacturing firms. This finding implies that a firm should invest in strategic CSR at a level higher than the industry average to intensify the positive effect of technological innovation activities on firm value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rapid advances in information and communications technologies, combined with increased social awareness of today's consumers, ushered in transformation in consumers' purchase behavior. This big shift away from the traditional ownership-based economy into a sharing economy is causing an urgent necessity to understand the shifted decision mechanism. Although there have been quite a few previous studies on antecedents of consumers' decision to engage in collective consumption, it is somewhat difficult to find previous research that focused on consumption values as antecedent predictors. To abridge this gap, this study aims to determine whether two predictors (social value and ethical value) affect consumers' intention to utilize collective consumption. In addition, the current study verifies the role of perceived risk as a moderator between perceived trust and the intention to use collective consumption. For the purpose of hypothesis verification, the study uses multiple regression and hierarchical moderated regression analysis. Responses from a total of 246 respondents are used for statistical analysis. The respondents were selected from the students attending a university located in Seoul, South Korea. The results indicate that social value and ethical value exerted significant impacts on the perceived trust of collective consumption. However, the magnitude of the social value's impact was slightly greater than that of ethical value. The result also confirms the mediating role of the perceived trust. Furthermore, perceived risk moderated the relationship between trust and the intention to utilize collective consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While social and cultural core values have been increasingly recognised in marine biosecurity risk assessment, biosecurity decision-making generally rely upon data derived from institutional led (top-down) practices, with societal perception and values that are hazard- or threat-focused rarely addressed in the same context. Working on a collectively rich dataset with 2469 value statements from 1001 survey respondents (the general citizens, or the 'novices'), and 72 values statements from 14 scientists and managers (the 'experts'), we aim to identify and compare aspects of marine, beach, and coastal areas that were personally important to general citizens, who are unfamiliar with the marine biosecurity and value concepts, and those perceived by experts, who have a strong scientific background and are involved actively in marine biosecurity activities, either in research or policymaking. Our findings reflect a considerable schism in value perceptions between experts and general citizens in terms of communication linguistics, and value conceptualisation and scales. Our comparative study highlights the risks of subjective biases in policy-relevant expert judgement elicitations regarding social and cultural values, and the potential of unawareness (or ignorance) of citizens' values, which may lead to overlooking hidden but real concerns of citizens in biosecurity policymaking in a dynamic context like marine and coastal areas. To this end, we suggest a collective approach where a general public's value system is incorporated with experts' knowledge and judgements for (marine) biosecurity risk assessment and management. • Top-down approaches using expert judgements may risk excluding citizens' values. • Experts' and novices' values of beach and coastal areas are identified and compared. • There is a considerable schism in value perceptions between experts and citizens. • Discrepancies are found in value discourses, conceptualisation, and scales. • A collective approach using both expert and novice values can improve policymaking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

'Insurantial imaginaries' describes the shared structures of comprehension and action that establishes the social value of insurance and its practical influence. As insurance is a bricolage of economic, legal, political, cultural and moral elements that vary across time and space, for insurance to be intelligible and functional, these imaginaries render this dynamic complexity into stable and discrete forms. In this paper, we explore one such imaginary constituted through the intersection of housing and insurance norms, vis a vis house and contents insurance, in home-owning democracies. Drawing on the cases of Australia and the United Kingdom, we observe how a rise in renting in these countries is resulting in an increase in underinsurance, with renters less likely to insure their assets. This is refashioning a long-standing insurantial imaginary shaped by socio-cultural aspirations for home-ownership, liberal norms of individual autonomy, and links between home-ownership and democracy, including participation in voting. In observing that this imaginary valorises home-ownership and insurance, and problematises renting and underinsurance, we draw attention to the covert power of insurance in co-constituting everyday practices and identify a novel spatialised insurantial imaginary. In grounding our analysis within home-owning democracies, we also make a broader contribution to economic and financial geography by extending understanding of the complex spatial nature of financial mechanisms and processes, and how market-based economies appear to be reconfiguring democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the increasing severity of environment problems, environmental protection has become an urgent issue for society. Therefore, the pro-environmental behaviour of individuals must be promoted. Meanwhile, the rapid development of social media has changed the lifestyle of individuals and imperceptibly influences their thoughts and behaviours. Ant Forest is a popular social media application that combines an environmental-protection-themed online game with offline low-carbon activities. By the end of May 2020, Ant Forest has reached more than 550 million users. Apparently, Ant Forest could exert far-reaching influence on users' environmental protection practices. However, the research on Ant Forest and its influence on users' pro-environmental activities is limited. To fill this gap, we draw from value theory and establish a research model to study how Ant Forest users' values affect their pro-environmental behavioural intentions. The model is empirically tested through a survey with 596 valid responses. Results show that users' perceptions of the hedonic, social, altruistic and biospheric values of Ant Forest have positive impacts on their attitudes toward it. Meanwhile, users' perceptions of the altruistic and biospheric values positively affect their pro-environmental behavioural intentions. Moreover, attitude has a positive effect on the continued gameplay intention. Finally, continued gameplay intention positively influences the pro-environmental behavioural intention. • Ant Forest users' perceptions of hedonic and social value significantly affect their attitudes toward the game. • Ant Forest users' perceptions of altruistic and biospheric value significantly impact their attitudes toward the game. • User perceptions of altruistic and biospheric value significantly affect the pro-environmental behavioural intentions. • Users' attitudes toward Ant Forest significantly affect the continued gameplay intentions. • Ant Forest users' continued gameplay intentions positively influence the pro-environmental behavioural intentions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Business action for sustainability is still mostly limited to 'weakly sustainable' activities that do not significantly change the way of doing business and only decrease negative environmental and societal impacts of doing business to a limited extent. Strongly sustainable business creates positive environmental, economic and social value and operates within the boundaries of the planet. Tools to help companies transform to this paradigm are still lacking. This research developed and tested the game-based tool "The Road to Flourishing". The tool aims to raise knowledge and change intended behaviour of business sustainability. The tool evaluation used a Theory of Planned Behaviour lens to understand whether the game play could change players' attitudes, social norms, perceived behavioural control, intended behaviour, and knowledge of business sustainability. A pre-post-survey was filled in by 220 participants with background in academia, business, business studies and consultancy. It was evaluated using t-tests to find potential changes due to the gameplay. Statistically significant differences were observed in players' knowledge levels and some components of intended behaviour but not the behavioural intention itself. We suggest using insights from other research streams to test sustainable business tools and ensure that they meet their intended objectives. We furthermore support the call for ensuring that businesses incorporate a strong sustainability paradigm and hope that The Road to Flourishing can help in this endeavour. • The game-based tool The Road to Flourishing was developed and its impact tested. • Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour, the potential impact on players was assessed. • The objectives to change behaviour and increase knowledge were partially met. • The gameplay changed some components of intended behaviour but not all. • Knowledge of the concepts for strongly sustainable business action increased. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Urbanization and climate change are significant factors contributing to the damage and degradation of cultural heritage buildings, diminishing their inherent historical, cultural, and social values in many developing nations. Consequently, cultural heritage conservation requires focused attention to support socio-economic development. This paper proposes a priority quantitative model for identifying barriers to cultural heritage conservation from governmental and educational perspectives in Vietnam using the fuzzy Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS). Among the 22 identified barriers, the research revealed the top six prioritized barriers: limited human resources, lack of funding, user behavior, difficulty of the approval process, limited community participation, and delays in payment procedures. This study gives practitioners a deeper understanding of the challenges faced during the heritage conservation process. Significantly, this research enriches the body of knowledge about barriers to cultural heritage conservation in developing countries, enabling governments to devise effective strategies and policies for sustainable heritage conservation. • Climate change and urbanization process in cultural heritage conservation. • Identified barriers to cultural heritage conservation projects in a developing country. • Aggregated priority barriers by fuzzy TOPSIS from government and educational perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How is it possible to socialize adolescents to become more vigilant in spotting fake news? In the present preregistered, randomized controlled trial (N = 1476), we aimed to implement a scalable, online counter-misinformation intervention by promoting family-based prosocial values and putting them in an expert role to build resistance against misinformation among adolescents. In this intervention, participants were endowed with an expert role and requested to write a letter to their digitally less experienced relatives elucidating six strategies to identify misinformation. We found immediate effects of the intervention (d = 0.17), but these effects disappeared after four weeks. However, those high school students who followed the instructions (N = 791) and had a higher need for cognition demonstrated a substantial benefit in correctly spotting fake news four weeks after the intervention compared to the control group (d +1 SD need for cognition = 0.28, d +2 SD need for cognition = 0.51). The present work demonstrates the power of using classic social psychological components, such as a digital mindset, expertise role, and prosocial strategies, to achieve long-term behavioral change among certain adolescents. Our approach might complement prior nudge and inoculation interventions in the fight against misinformation in this age group. • A randomized controlled trial contributed to fake news recognition. • Prosocial values, digital mindset, and expert role helped teens to recognize fake news. • This effect persisted over 4 weeks among certain adolescents. • Boundary conditions were found: following the instructions and need for cognition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Photovoltaic (PV) energy sources are considered potential sources of renewable energy for combating climate change. However, consumer acceptance of PV-based energy storage systems must be studied comprehensively and psychologically beyond mere awareness and affordability. This study explores consumer acceptance of PV energy storage systems, along with an added relational value context that demonstrates the conducive human-nature relationship among energy consumers. An online survey of 370 respondents was used to examine consumers' willingness to prefer PV energy storage systems over non-renewable grid-connected energy storage systems. Results of the study were analyzed using a comprehensive structural equation model to estimate and test hypotheses. The findings indicate the favorable influence of several elements on PV energy system social acceptability, including PV energy system awareness, PV energy system beliefs, environmental knowledge, self-effective perception, and relational values. Conversely, the cost of PV energy systems has a negative effect. This study suggests that relational values may offset the negative impacts of energy costs. The inherent link between relational values and the prioritization of sustainable energy storage options serves as a source of information for energy policymakers and stakeholders to regulate energy consumption by influencing consumers to express their love for nature. • Analyzing consumers' preference for PV energy storage systems over grid-connected storage systems. • Exploring the challenges of social acceptance of PV energy storage systems in a developing country. • Considering the significance of relational values in the social acceptance of PV energy storage systems. • Finding the integrated impact of theory of planned behavior and relational values into energy transition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Establish a comprehensive evaluation framework for mine ecological restoration. • Use the value added of land assets around the restoration area to assess the social value. • The indirect value of ecological restoration is 3.12 times that of direct value. • Economic-only input–output ratio is 0.34, comprehensive benefit ratio is 1.40. Historical unsustainable mining activities have led to significant ecological degradation, emphasizing the importance and urgency of ecological restoration and its effectiveness assessment. This study evaluates the economic, ecological, and social benefits of ecological restoration in the Longshan mining area from the perspective of ecological product value, utilizing an input–output research framework based on ecosystem service valuation. This comprehensive assessment includes consideration of restoration cost inputs, aiming to delve into the effectiveness of ecological restoration projects in mining areas. The findings reveal: (1) The indirect value of the ecological products generated by the ecological restoration is approximately 3.13 times greater than their direct value, highlighting the significantly positive impacts of the project. This underscores the necessity for future assessments of mining area ecological restoration projects to not only focus on direct economic returns but also to thoroughly examine their long-term positive impacts on social structures, environmental quality, and residents' quality of life. (2) When considered solely from an economic benefit perspective, the input–output ratio of the project is 0.34, insufficient to cover the total cost of the project. However, after integrating economic, ecological, and social benefits, the input–output ratio increases to 1.40. This indicates the importance of exploring the mechanisms through which the indirect values of ecological and social benefits contribute directly to the project's economic sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the acknowledged value of social support during reentry from prison, studies on the subject seldom use network-level instruments to provide more holistic policy solutions. This paper adopts a network approach that specifically defines social support as the resources exchanged through social ties. This definition expands the ways individuals can vary in the nature and scope of their social support. With a sample of 85 incarcerated men preparing for reentry, this study explored the key ways individuals can vary in their social support. Specifically, this study adopted a reentry specific name generator embedded in a semi-structured interview, wherein participants could delineate between different types of support. These interviews took place within prison and were administered with the software Network Canvas. Participants had a particularly challenging time anticipating transportation support upon release, especially when compared to other types of resources (e.g., having someone to vent to). The size and structure of their overall networks also varied considerably, with some anticipating all resources being provided by one person, whereas some could anticipate a variety of resources from a number of different people. Individual scores on resource diversity, counted as the number of unique resources in a network, varied considerable as well, and was not found to be a function of network size alone. Existing measures of social support miss key areas of network-level variation in the nature and structure of social support. Adopting a network or resource-based approach could provide practitioners with the tools to effectively "take stock" of the resource network of those preparing to return home and more effectively funnel resources into those gaps. • Participants anticipated relatively high expressive support upon their release (e.g., having someone to vent to). • Resource diversity, as calculated as the count of unique resources, varied considerably across participants. • Results highlight the need to vary social support measures by type and frequency, thus providing more clear paths for where to divert resources to those returning home. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Biodiversity offsetting (BO) in urban contexts is a novel tool in urban planning. • Urban BO is pushed forward at the expense of social values of greenspaces. • Residents' views of BO reveal gaps in current participatory approaches. • BO is not an easy fix in mediating social-environmental conflicts in urban planning. We examine the public perceptions of an urban biodiversity offsetting pilot project and the implications of such a project for conflicts in urban planning. The City of Lahti was the first in Finland to pilot biodiversity offsetting in its urban planning in 2021. This pilot project demonstrates the contradictions of depoliticised nature, which the urban context makes visible. We draw on interviews with city planners and other city officials, residents and stakeholders, workshops, and documents tracing the pilot project. The case study shows how biodiversity offsetting risks rendering urban planning and its inherent conflicts over preserving greenspaces and enabling development to a set of technical measurements and valuation, while "the social" in urban planning becomes secondary. The theoretical framework of depoliticisation highlights the tensions between the biodiversity offsetting scheme and the participatory planning processes. The former is presented as depoliticised and incontestable, while the latter are overrun by a technocratic measuring of ecological values. We conclude that the contradictions of depoliticised nature are built into the core of biodiversity offsetting and consider ways to improve the social fairness of offsetting in urban contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This monograph presents findings from original research on urban heritage transformations and advances existing scholarship on three grounds: (1) it offers tested combinations of methods to capture the social values of heritage; (2) it distils the complex, diverse social values generated by urban heritage and revealed by the use of these methods; and (3) it discusses the implications and potential applications of these methods for urban planning. Cities are multi-layered deposits of tangible historic features and intangible meanings, memories, practices and associated values. These dense socio-material assemblages have been conceptualised as the 'deep city', a concept that recognises dynamic relationships between past, present and future, whilst simultaneously repositioning heritage at the heart of sustainable transformation. However, methods for understanding people's relationships with urban heritage are mostly applied piecemeal in urban planning and heritage management. Here, we introduce research involving a suite of social and digital research methods, which can be deployed rapidly in online and offline spaces to examine the social values generated by urban heritage. Three in-depth case studies, in Edinburgh, London, and Florence, reveal how these values are involved in urban place-making. Failure to take them into account in development and regeneration projects can result in fragmentation and/or marginalisation of communities and their place attachments. The research has important implications for urban planning, offering methods and tools for working with communities to create more socially sustainable urban futures. • Social values linked to heritage are currently neglected in urban planning. • Our innovative, mixed methods approach enables rapid value assessment online and offline. • Diverse, complex value assemblages are produced in different online and offline arenas. • These values mediate people's spatial and temporal relationships with the dynamic city. • Values are therefore key in creating socially sustainable urban transformations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Applies intergroup conflict to unhoused users in public parks and greenspaces. • Equitable management requires an understanding of conflict. • Park users described both social values and interpersonal conflict. • Negative attitudes towards unhoused people was related to greater conflict. • We describe strategies to address conflict in this context. Like other user groups, people experiencing homelessness utilize parks and other public spaces for a variety of reasons, including recreation/leisure, physical activity, socializing, and to enjoy time in nature. However, unlike other user groups, unhoused park users also often rely on parks as a setting to engage in a variety of necessary metabolic and biophysical functions. Despite the centrality of these places to both unhoused and housed members of the public, there is little research focused on managing them for equitable outcomes between these two groups. We situate our work in this context, and specifically apply intergroup conflict as a framework for our analysis and discussion. Our results indicate that housed park users felt both interpersonal and social values conflict related to specific scenarios involving unhoused users. In general, those with more negative attitudes towards people experiencing homelessness were more likely to report conflict with unhoused park users. The greatest levels of conflict were perceived in the context of non-normative park use by unhoused users (activities that would be unacceptable by any user group). We suggest a variety of passive and active management strategies to reduce perceived conflict between unhoused and housed park users, including specific zoning, amenities, enforcement, and educational strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By extending and elaborating on Nevo and Wade's systems theory perspective, we propose a model to validate the causal relationships among platform compatibility, integration effort, realized synergy, and IT business value (decomposed into social and economic value) within the context of a Taobao village E-commerce (EC) ecosystem. We collected data from Taobao village EC ecosystems to validate the proposed hypotheses. Using 258 valid responses, we reveal the following: (1) Platform compatibility, a second-order latent construct, includes IT-commerce alignment and resource-sharing routine alignment. Platform compatibility positively affects realized synergy. (2) Integration effort positively affects platform compatibility and realized synergy. (3) Realized synergy positively impacts social and economic value. (4) Realized synergy mediates the relationship between critical enablers (integration effort and platform compatibility) and social and economic value. Specifically, the relationship between platform compatibility and social and economic value is partially mediated, while the relationship between integration effort and value is fully mediated. These findings extend systems theory by offering deeper insights into the integration of systems theory and RBV, particularly highlighting the mediating role of synergy. They reveal that compatibility and integration effort directly contribute to value creation, and that synergy further amplifies these effects. • Integration effort positively affects platform compatibility and synergy. • Platform compatibility positively affects synergy. • Platform compatibility includes IT-commerce alignment and resource-sharing routine alignment. • Synergy mediates the relationship between critical enablers and social and economic value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The evolution of decentralised energy systems, the rise of prosumers and the formation of energy communities (ECs) demand innovative approaches to assess and optimise value creation within these ecosystems. A significant gap exists regarding a unified approach and methods to identify, model, quantify and compare the multifaceted values in the social, economic, technical, and environmental context that ECs contribute to the broader energy system. This research bridges the gap in understanding the associations and value creation within ECs by developing a framework and methodology to understand and analyse the value creation within ECs and focusing on evolving end-user or prosumer involvement and interactions among diverse stakeholders. The research proposes a strategy to evaluate the various values produced by EC based on the action-oriented perspective of developing actors. By focusing on the evolving actions of end-users through different levels of use cases developed in this research, the stakeholders' motivations can be aligned with their activities. By doing so, the value formed within ECs can be explained, and a structured approach to quantifying these values can be established. This action-oriented approach and developed framework provide insights into holistic value creation and serve as a tool for identifying, quantifying, and comparing the values associated with ECs, which incorporate a range of key performance indicators (KPIs) to be developed to facilitate this analysis. The significance of the research extends beyond the theoretical realm, serving as a blueprint or guide for stakeholders to enhance value-creation strategies, guide policy development, and foster sustainable growth in ECs. By applying the developed framework and methodology, stakeholders can model and gain a holistic and deeper understanding of the multidisciplinary dimensions of the energy transition, identify synergies, and identify conflicts to boost collective benefits. Through this approach, a deeper understanding of the energy transitions through ECs in a multidisciplinary context can be gained, and a roadmap can be created. • Primary use cases bridge research and engineering, enhancing electricity system innovation. • Energy communities' growth curve models operational maturity in evolving energy networks. • Value-sharing framework fosters holistic understanding of energy transition. • Prosumer and energy community roles are pivotal in socio-technical electricity network dynamics. • Multidisciplinary approach is the key for defining active end-user energy roles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Few studies have focused on the daily hassles among adolescent siblings living with individuals with intellectual disability (IwID) and the resulting conflicts between family members. The pathway from stress (hassles) to adolescents' violent acts has been largely ignored. This study examined the link between hassles (independent variable) and violence against parents (dependent variable), with aggression as a mediator and social support as a moderator. Data were collected from November 2018 to February 2019 in Seoul, Gyeonggi Province, and Incheon City. Participants were 303 adolescent siblings of IwID (male: 47.2 %; female: 52.1 %). Descriptive analysis was conducted using SPSS 24.0 and mediating pathways were determined using SPSS Macro 25.0. To verify the moderating role of social support, the entire sample was divided into two groups based on the mean value of social support and the mediating model was analyzed. In the low social support group (n = 140), the direct effect was not significant (β = 0.0111, 95 % CI = −0.0044 to 0.0266), but the indirect effect was maintained (β = 0.0096, 95 % CI = 0.0005 to 0.0234). However, in the high support group (n = 118), neither the direct effect (β = 0.0106, 95 % CI = −0.0162 to 0.0373) nor the indirect effect (β = 0.0126, 95 % CI = −0.0013 to 0.0301) was significant. Social support as a moderator was statistically significant compared with different paths in the two-group analysis. Counselling interventions are needed to alleviate the link between hassles and adolescent violence against parents through aggression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The SF-6D health descriptive system and its second version published in 2020, the SF-6Dv2, is used worldwide for valuing health-related quality of life (HRQoL) for economic evaluation and measuring patient-reported health outcomes. In this study, a valuation tool was developed and applied to create a social value set, comprising 18,750 health state values, for the SF-6Dv2 for New Zealand (NZ). This tool was adapted and extended from the one used to create a social value set for the EQ-5D-5L, a simpler health descriptive system with fewer dimensions and health states. The tool implements the PAPRIKA method, a type of adaptive discrete choice experiment, and a binary search algorithm to identify health states worse than dead and has extensive data quality controls to ensure the validity and reliability of the social value set derived from participants' personal value sets. The tool, accompanied by a short introductory video designed specifically for the SF-6Dv2, was distributed via an online survey to a large representative sample of adult New Zealanders in June–July 2022. The tool's data quality controls enabled participants who failed to understand or sincerely engage with the valuation tasks to be identified and excluded, resulting in the participants being pared down to a sub-sample of 2985 'high-quality' participants whose personal value sets were averaged for the social value set. These results, including participants' positive feedback, demonstrate the feasibility and acceptability of using the tool to value larger health descriptive systems such as the SF-6Dv2. Having successfully created an SF-6Dv2 social value set for NZ, the valuation tool can be readily applied to other countries, used to generate personal value sets for personalised medicine and adapted to create value sets for other health descriptive systems. • The first SF-6Dv2 value set created for New Zealand. • Health states for the SF-6Dv2 were valued using the PAPRIKA method. • Extensive data quality controls excluded participants with 'low-quality' responses. • An introductory video increased participants' understanding and engagement. • The valuation tool is feasible and acceptable for valuing larger descriptive systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social networks play a crucial role in mediating the risk environments of individuals, especially minoritized groups such as people who use opioids or who inject drugs (PWUD). However, conventional understandings of social networks may not fully account for how social networks manifest in contemporary and often fluid socio-relational contexts Furthermore, little is known about PWUD's networks from an empirical perspective that considers these contextual dynamics and associated risk environments. We conducted semi-structured interviews with PWUD in New York City, New York and rural southern Illinois, two opioid-related overdose hotspots, to contextualize the nature, scale, and potential outcomes/implications of PWUD's social relationships. A total of 46 individuals were interviewed. The mean age of participants was 38 years old, and most were men (56.5%). Most participants were White (84.5%) or Black (8.7%). Respondents described three primary social network types: family members, friends who were PWUD, and romantic/sexual partners. In general, both urban and rural PWUD described their family relationships as limited and tenuous, this largely attributable to them feeling stigmatized and outcast due to their drug use. Respondents described their friend networks as small, typically consisting of other PWUD, and indicated that they had limited trust for these individuals, contributing to social closure. Respondents further framed relationships with romantic/sexual partners, also typically PWUD, as often tumultuous, fragmented, and ambiguous in terms of partners' drug use and sexual behaviors. In contrast, syringe services programs were viewed as highly useful in making PWUD feel socially affirmed. Urban and rural PWUD described their social networks in similar ways, highlighting limited or fluid connectivity/depth in familial, friend, and romantic/sexual relationships. Equity and relationship-building paradigms that focus on cultural humility and restorative justice may be impactful in cultivating, mending, and sustaining healthy PWUD networks. Collectively, these dynamics call attention to a need to orient social network research towards contextualization and measurement of tie meaning, purpose, and value , metrics that we conceptualize and discuss here. • Tie meaning , purpose , and value are vital for fully understanding networks. • PWUD described their family relationships as limited and fragile. • PWUD's friends were mostly PWUD and deemed transactional/untrustworthy. • PWUD's domestic/sexual relationships were volatile and ambiguous. • Cultural humility and restorative justice may help build and restore PWUD supports. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) have been advocated for their potential to contribute to the making of sustainable and just cities. However, a growing body of research shows that NBS cannot inherently provide just outcomes and might instead (re)produce environmental injustices. This research explores NBS for stream/river restoration in 'informal' areas, showing how riparian margins have become spaces of conflict. It draws lessons from two linear parks integrated into neighbourhood regeneration strategies in São Paulo. Data were collected from household surveys and focus group discussions to examine local populations' values towards stream restoration. They provide understandings of residents' perceptions towards multiple health and safety risks and concerns over contested responsibilities, notably revealing that local preferences for stream burial have been shaped by persisting waste dumping issues. An environmental justice lens helps highlight the limited integration of plural social and cultural values into project plans. This further helps draw lessons on ways to address local conflicts and integrate multiple socio-environmental values into NBS planning, with support from policy tools that allow stronger community engagement. Findings also support the identification of justice pathways for NBS in informal settings. The analysis of material and interpretative human-environment relationships provides evidence of opportunities for NBS to be integrated into everyday uses of local space and pre-existing environmental caring practices. For this, communities need to have stronger influence over decisions affecting them. The research thereby demonstrates that NBS will only become a mechanism for ecological recovery with city-wide benefits if marginalised groups are better included in their planning. • Urban rivers reflect the complexity of human-nature relationships. • An environmental justice lens reveals issues of NBS integration in informal settlements. • Assessments for NBS interventions must consider the plurality of community values. • The case studies demonstrate a lack of collective problem-framing. • Cases also demonstrate an absence of continuity during post-project implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Things afford positive, neutral, or negative long-run effects on the replicative probability of the focal individual's genes. At the most general level, values are internal estimates of those effects. Value information steers physiology and behavior in the right direction: approach apple, avoid lion. Thus, value computation is of paramount biological importance. Task analysis suggests there are many prerequisites for valuing things aptly. Here, I focus on two: the need to compute value accurately, and the need to properly feed and integrate value information into the various systems that use value information (e.g., emotion systems). For example, the subjective food value imputed to an apple needs to reflect the nutrient content of the apple (accuracy); the intensity of gratitude aroused if someone gave you an apple needs to reflect the food value imputed to the apple (integration). Here, I evaluate these hypotheses with two preregistered studies. Consistent with the integration hypothesis, there are close correspondences between (i) the food values that participants impute to each of 40 food items (Study 1; goods) and (ii) the social values and the social emotions (including: gratitude, anger, shame, and pride) that result when those food items occur as constituents of broader social events. Similar correspondences are observed when participants evaluate each of 28 diseases and injuries (Study 2; bads). Consistent with the accuracy hypothesis, exploratory analyses indicate that the food values, the social values, and the social emotions elicited by the food items all track the nutrient content of those food items. Valuation is inherently a computational process. For this reason, a computational–functionalist perspective is distinctively suited to spur progress in our understanding of human values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We report two studies on the role of altruism and reciprocity in the online one-shot Public Goods Game (PGG). In study 1 we run an experiment to see whether the disposition to donate (altruistic/prosocial disposition according to the Social Value Orientation scale (SVO), Murphy et al., 2011) and the disposition to reciprocate (disposition to be a conditional cooperator measured with the strategy method (dCC), Fischbacher et al., 2012) explain contribution in the PGG. In study 2 we run a similar experiment where we add the manipulation of cognition by means of two treatments: time pressure (to induce less deliberative decisions) and motivated delay (to induce more deliberative decisions). Overall, we find that: (i) a higher SVO score goes with higher contributions; (ii) higher beliefs go with higher contributions; (iii) dCC does not appreciably account for contributions; (iv) conditional contributions elicited with the strategy method predict actual contribution for the stated belief; (v) while (i)–(iv) are unaffected by treatments, contributions under motivated delay are about 10% higher than under time pressure. Our experimental evidence suggests that altruism, beliefs and predicted contributions account for contributions regardless of the extent of deliberation, which however seems to impact positively and independently contributions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the most significant challenges in rebuilding Europe after COVID-19 is stimulating the marginalised, rural areas of the European Union (EU). Amid a social distancing environment, it is quite important to re-evaluate policy instruments that have recorded successes in rural development with an emphasis on the infrastructure of local dialogue; the Liaisons Entre Actions de Developpement de l'Economie Rurale (LEADER) has been such a programme. The current article introduces a qualitatively-integrated Social Return on Investment tool to evaluate the social added value of LEADER. The evaluation method was applied on the rural island of Lesvos in Greece. The evaluation results indicated that LEADER becomes a worthwhile investment when a wide range of its social outflows are taken into account. Additionally, in order to enhance its social value, a level of maturity and a solid economic basis must be first achieved. In this context, continuous monitoring and evaluation become crucial. • LEADER evaluation must be seen as a development challenge. • LEADER adds significant social value to rural areas. • LEADER should be seen as a multi-stage process. • To realise its potential, LEADER needs a solid economic basis. • Continuous monitoring and evaluation of the LEADER strategy is vital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Extending past research on the social and academic disruption associated with the transition from middle to high school, this study examined the role of friendship stability. Specifically, the goal was to investigate how friendships maintained from middle school and perceived (academic and emotional) support from friends at ninth grade contributed to school-related affect (e.g., school belonging, academic identification, burnout) at 10th grade. Relying on a sample of 3410 ethnically diverse ninth grade students, multilevel structural equation modeling (MSEM) was conducted on 17,255 friendships. Friendships maintained from middle to high school (versus newly formed) provided greater academic support, and students with a greater number of stable friends reported higher levels of both academic and emotional support from friends. Tests of multiple mediation revealed that friendship maintenance across the high school transition was related with more positive school affect at 10th grade, in part due to higher levels of perceived academic support from friends (e.g., homework help, course-taking advice), but not emotional support. The findings underscore the academic value of maintaining social ties across the high school transition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Connections between mobility and social exclusion have been of research and policy interest for some years, a high monetary value being estimated for additional trips by those at risk of mobility-related exclusion. Those monetary values have been based on individual-level characteristics. To date, the influence of place, or neighbourhood, on risk of social exclusion and on the associated value of trip making by at-risk people has not been considered. This paper adds a measure of neighbourhood to individual factors to explore risk of social exclusion and then shows how the monetary value of additional trips varies by level of social exclusion risk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Changing environmental data analytics modify perceptions and policies on resources, particularly in terms on mining legitimisations. Enhanced data products are critical for improved planning and execution of extractive activities. Improved data in the mining industry tends to increase definitions and scale levels thus segregating environmental features from each other. This tends to be in conflict with local contingent appreciations of resources and their interactions with broader environmental features and conditions. Data scales and availabilities influence which resource perception dominates and so how mining is justified or antagonised successfully. This paper contributes to discussions that explore resource materialities from analyses of lithium mining. It focuses on the Atacama Salt Flat in contexts of lithium mining and material metrics, and separates itself from focuses on global availability of reserves by taking a narrower discussion on chemical differences that contour abundancy, variety and rarity of materials. This paper is based on fieldwork conducted in 2019 in Chile. It presents the current state of social appreciations on lithium materialities in and around places of extraction in Chile. Centrally, it unpacks an analysis of the social values of lithium and sets grounds for thinking about how a social value of a material becomes prevalent over other social values, particularly in contexts of global material needs and local environmental change for climate change mitigation solutions. • Affordances of data products on the Atacama Salt Flat sustain social values that favour lithium extraction. • Legitimisations to extract materials in the global south benefit from data products that increase metrics and categories of materials. • Contestations to lithium mining in San Pedro de Atacama use dominant discourses that better sustain extraction. • Environmental policy-making need to scrutinise data products from the outset of social values. • Data-driven responsible material sourcing should integrate social value assessments • There is no clear-cut definition of social value respective to the environment and progress on its understanding is context and place specific. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to provide a better understanding of online public shaming (OPS). OPS has been the subject of interdisciplinary, insightful research. With few exceptions, this research has taken a theoretical, macro approach (Cheong and Gong, 2010; Lazarus, 2017). Digital discourse analysis and netnographic approaches can illuminate OPS further by helping us get "into the mob" and allowing us to tackle OPS's realizations at the micro level. Hence six recent cases of OPS in the US, all exposing perceived incidents of racism against visible minorities - here understood as breaches of the Harm/Care moral foundation (Haidt, 2012) - were analyzed along with a sizeable amount of related user-generated comments. Crucially, the analysis connected OPS to extant models of responses to impoliteness (Culpeper et al., 2003; Bousfield, 2007) by understanding involvement in OPS as digilantes' choice to respond to perceived offense with further aggression and by relating this choice to the diverse types of functionalities associated with impoliteness (Culpeper, 2011). Results additionally showed that conceptualizing OPS along the lines of moral indignation/outrage, good moral panics, and social regulation can help us better understand digilantes' ostensive motivations and goals. • Provides a micro-level analysis of online public shaming (OPS) in the context of Cancel Culture. • Relates OPS to models of responses to impoliteness. • Relates digilantes' participation in OPS to emotion and moral indignation/outrage. • Explains OPS in terms of good moral panics and social regulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Community engagement is crucial for integrated and adaptive river management but an organized body of knowledge to systematically promote community engagement is still lacking. To provide a conceptual framework of community-based river management, and to identify and synthesize evidence that describes pathways conducive to community engagement. We carried out a systematic review of empirical evidence on community engagement in river management published from January 2000 to May 2021. By means of iterative categorization, we described three variables across all case studies: governance context, values of mobilization and pathways to engagement. A conceptual framework of community-based river management was drawn up and evidence of each pathway synthetized. Of 153 records, 51 were eligible. Three types of governance context were observed: top-down, bottom-up and hybrid. Environmental, economic, safety, scenic, cultural and social values were found to bring people together for action. Community mobilization was mostly driven by multiple values, with a prevailing perception of the river as a complex eco-social system. Seven pathways to community engagement were identified: assessing community perception, knowledge co-production, community science, common vision building, environmental education, community-based groups and pro-environmental action. We proposed a novel conceptual framework that visually represents community-based river management, informed by the interplay between values, governance and these pathways. Disregarding location and scale, community-based river management is multi-faceted and dynamic. Our conceptual framework provides a baseline for systematically engaging local communities in the different stages of river management, including diagnosis and monitoring, decision-making and implementation. • Community-based river management is shaped by the governance context, mobilization values and engagement pathways. • Governance context shapes riparian communities' role in river management based on the local participatory culture. • Communities' mobilization is mostly driven by the simultaneous defence of environmental, economic and social values. • Community engagement pathways include the collection, transmission and application of local knowledge in river management. • Community-based river management is an ongoing process oriented to build trust between riparian communities and main actors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Infants adaptively modulate their social behaviours, such as gaze-following, to social context. We propose that such modulations are based on infants' social decision-making, to achieve the most valuable outcome. We propose an 'action value calculator model', which formulates the cognitive mechanisms underlying, and the development of, the decision-making process during interactions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research explores the factors influencing green energy consumer behaviour in Australia by examining Australian consumers' attitudes towards green energy from the Green Perceived Value (GPV) perspective, which integrates functional, emotional, conditional, and social dimensions. The data was collected through a survey of 380 participants on Amazon Mechanical Turk. This study employs factor analysis and structural equation modelling to report positive attitudes towards green energy. The positive perception is notably centred on its practical benefits, superior quality, and environmental advantages. These findings suggest that marketing strategies should highlight green energy's functional and environmental benefits to encourage consumer adoption. The study underscores the necessity of targeted educational campaigns aimed at younger demographics through digital media and the importance of emphasising green energy's economic and environmental benefits. Also, it recommends leveraging social and emotional value messaging and fostering community engagement to enhance the attractiveness of green energy solutions. Contributing to the discourse on green energy adoption in Australia, this research advocates for inclusive policies that ensure the accessibility and affordability of green energy for a diverse demographic spectrum. It calls for expanded research to further explore the GPV dimensions and include potential consumers in different cultural contexts. It offers a comprehensive framework to support strategies for increasing green energy adoption that are aligned with sustainability objectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Healthcare systems can be considered moral economies in which moral capital in the form of expectations toward norms, values, and virtues are exchanged and traded. Moral capital, as a concept, is an extension of Bourdieu's forms of symbolic, and in particular, cultural capital. This research set out to identify forms of moral capital evident in the accounts of health professionals and patients within the distinctive healthcare systems of Germany, New Zealand, and the Unites States. Here, we provide an overview of 15 forms of moral capital that were identified. An important form of moral capital is equality. The global coronavirus pandemic has illuminated inequalities in healthcare systems across the world. We suggest considering moral capital as a useful tool to reform healthcare systems and make the provision of healthcare a more equitable enterprise. • Healthcare systems can be considered moral economies in which moral capital is traded. • The authors identified 15 forms of moral capital in Germany, New Zealand, and the Unites States. • Forms of moral capital include equality, trust, and solidarity, among others. • Moral capital can be a useful tool to reform healthcare systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After decades of continuous attempts to curb examination malpractices in higher education within Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), some discussions have emerged but are scattered within the literature. This study, therefore, sought to map the distribution of studies by conducting a systematic review of examination practices incidence within the SSA higher education delivery. The studies reviewed were based on 96 examination malpractice-related studies spanning 2012–2023. The data extraction process was guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) protocol. Results obtained after the review, showed that the Western part of SSA had the highest frequency of studies, with 70 emanating from Nigeria and 8 from Ghana. Southern SSA produced only a single study from Zimbabwe, representing the region with the lowest frequency of studies on examination malpractice. From the review, the most frequently cited causes of examination malpractice were societal pressure and obsession for academic certificates, while the erosion of educational quality, and devaluation of certificates emerged as the major effects of examination malpractice. The promotion of educational values, and examination ethics emerged as the most effective strategies mentioned in the studies found. In essence, the discoveries and suggestions presented in this review significantly contribute to the ongoing efforts aimed at halting the spread of examination malpractice in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]