Ways To Value the Environment

• Aesthetic Value

  Appreciating beauty through the senses

• Cultural Value

  Maintaining the attitudes and practices of a specific group of people

• Ecological Value

  Maintaining the integrity of natural systems

• Economic Value

  Exchanging goods and services for money

• Educational Value

  Benefitting from learning and instruction

• Egocentric Value

  Focusing on self-satisfaction and personal fulfillment

• Legal Value

  Referring to the law and its enforcement

• Recreational Value

  Using leisure time

• Social Value

  Sharing human empathy, feelings, and status

Adapted from "A Child's Place in the Environment", sponsored by the in cooperation with Konocti Unified School District.