Below we list selected publications, organized by topic.
For a complete and up-to-date publication list, see Dr. Gould's Google Scholar page
Names of members of the Ecocultural Values Workshop are in bold.
Names of members of the Ecocultural Values Workshop are in bold.
Non-material Values (Cultural Ecosystem Services and Relational Values) - "Basics"
Gould, R.K. and Satterfield, T. Critiques of cultural ecosystem services and how to minimize them. Routledge
Handbook of Cultural Ecosystem Services. [Open Access Book Website] [Extended references for this chapter]
Handbook of Cultural Ecosystem Services. [Open Access Book Website] [Extended references for this chapter]
Gould, R.K., Satterfield, T., Leong, K., Fisk, J. 2025. The Generations of Cultural Ecosystem Services research. Conservation Biology. [Open Access Journal Website]
Gould, R.K. and Allen, K. Cultural Ecosystem Services: Conclusion and next steps. Routledge Handbook of Cultural Ecosystem Services. [Open Access Book Website]
Chan, K.M.A., Gould, R.K., López de la Lama, R., Eyster, H.N. What if Cultural Ecosystem Services were Relational? A Research Agenda for Nature’s Contributions to Well-Being—and Human Action. Routledge Handbook of Cultural Ecosystem Services. [Open Access Book Website]
Pascual, U., .... [et. al.] .. Gould, R.K. Diverse Values of Nature for Sustainability. Nature 620, 813–823. [Open Access PDF] [Paper that summarizes the IPBES Values Assessment]
Pratson, D.F., Adams, N., Gould, R.K., 2023. Relational values of nature in empirical research: A systematic review. People and Nature. [Open Access PDF]
Gould, R.K., Bremer, L., Pascua, P., Meza Prado, K. 2020. Frontiers in cultural ecosystem services: Toward greater equity and justice in ecosystem services research and practice. Bioscience. [Post-print/journal PDF]
Gould, R.K., Vivanco, L., Adams, A. 2020. Looking into the dragons of cultural ecosystem services. Ecosystems and People. [Open Access PDF]
Chan, K., Pascual, U., Gould, R.K. 2018. Editorial: What are relational values, and what’s all the fuss about? Current Opinion in Environment and Sustainability. 35: A1-A7. [Open Access PDF]
Chan, K.M.A., Balvanera, P., Benessaiah, K., Chapman, M., Díaz, S., Gómez-Baggethun, E., Gould, R.K., Hannahs, N., Jax, K., Klain, S., Luck, G., Martín-López, B., Muraca, B., Norton, B., Ott, K, Pascual, U., Satterfield, T., Tadaki, M., Taggart, J., and Turner, N. 2016. Opinion: Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, 1462–1465. [Open Access PDF]
Relationality and relational thinking - "Basics" and relevance to sustainability science
Gould, R.K., Jimenez Naranjo, Y., and Balvanera, P. 2025. Relationality is not WEIRD. Ecosystems and People (21)1. [Open Access Journal Website]
Gould, R.K., Martinez, D.E., Hoelting, K.R., 2023. Exploring Indigenous relationality to inform the relational turn in sustainability science. Ecosystems and People 19. [Open Access PDF]
Gallegos-Riofrio, C.A., Zent, E., Gould, R.K. 2022. The importance of Latin American scholarship-and-practice for the relational turn in sustainability science: A reply to West et al. Ecosystems and People. [Response to West et al. 2021, Ecosystems and People] [Open Access PDF]
Non-material Values - Methods
Marquina, T. and Gould, R.K. 2025. Methods to measure relative importance of cultural ecosystem services. Routledge Handbook of Cultural Ecosystem Services. [Open Access Book Website]
Gould, R.K., Saito, T., Allen, K., Bonn, A., Chapman, M., Droz, L., Herrmann, T., Himes, A., Ishihara, Coelho-Junior, M., Fukamachi, K., Kenter, J., Muraca, B., Ortiz-Przychodzka, S., Pearson, J., Rono, B.J., Tadaki, M., Tamura, N. Constraint breeds creativity: A brainstorming method to jumpstart out-of-the-box thinking for sustainability science. 2023. Bioscience. [Journal website] [Accepted version PDF]
Gallegos-Riofrio, C.A., Arab, H., Carrasco-Torrontegui, A., Gould, R.K. 2022. Chronic deficiency of diversity and pluralism in research on nature’s mental health effects: A planetary health problem. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability 4, 100148. [Open Access PDF]
Gould, R.K., Schultz, P.W. 2021. Challenges to understanding psychological dimensions of human-nature connections – and how to address them. Ecology and Society. [Open Access PDF]
Gould, R.K. 2021. How creativity can help research on the multiple values of nature become more innovative and inclusive. People and Nature. [Open Access PDF]
Non-material Values - Empirical Research
Hoelting, K.R., Gould, R.K., Cravens, A.C., Winters, B.D. Constraints and enablers for meaningful consideration of plural values through integration of cultural ecosystem services (CES) in decision-making. Routledge Handbook of Cultural Ecosystem Services. [Open Access Book Website] [Extended references for this chapter]
Gould, R.K., Merrylees, E., Hackenburg, D., Marquina, T., 2023. “My place in the grand scheme of things”: perspective from nature and sustainability science. Sustainability Science. [Journal website]
Manley, K., Hackenburg, D., Marquina, T., Gould, R.K. Gratitude for nature: Abundant appreciation and rare reciprocity in free-response reflections. Ecopsychology. [Post-print/Journal PDF]
Hagan, E., Gould, R.K. 2022. Associations between relational values and empathy. Ecology & Society. [Open Access PDF]
Marquina, T., Murdoch, D., 2022, Gould, R.K. ‘Hey, tree. You are my friend’: Assessing multiple values of nature through letters to trees. People and Nature. [Open Access PDF]
Marquina, T., Emery, M., Hurley, P., Gould, R.K. 2022. The “quiet hunt”: The significance of mushroom foraging among Russian-speaking immigrants in New York City. Ecosystems and People. [Open Access PDF]
Gould, R.K., Pai, M., Muraca, B., Chan, Kai M.A.. 2019. “He ʻike ʻana Ia i Ka Pono (It Is a Recognizing of the Right Thing): How One Indigenous Worldview Informs Relational Values and Social Values.” Sustainability Science 14 (5): 1213–32. [Pre-print PDF] [Post-print/journal PDF]
Gould, R.K., Lincoln, N. 2017. Expanding the suite of Cultural Ecosystem Services to include ingenuity, perspective, and life teaching. Ecosystem Services. 25: 117-127. [Pre-print PDF] [Post-print/journal PDF]
Links between Learning and Values
Gould, R.K., Coleman, K., Gluck, S.B., 2018. Exploring dynamism of cultural ecosystem services through a review of environmental education research. Ambio 47, 1–15.
Britto dos Santos, N., Gould, R.K. 2018. Can relational values be developed and changed? Investigating relational values in the environmental education literature. Current Opinion in Environment and Sustainability. 35: 124-131.
Pro-environmental Behavior
Gould, R.K., Moreno Soares, T. , Arias-Arévalo, P., Cantú-Fernandez, M., Baker, D., Eyster, H., Kwon, R., Prox, L., Rode, J., Suarez, A., Vatn., A., Zúñiga-Barragán, J. 2023. The role of value(s) in theories of human behavior. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. [Journal website]
Gould, R.K., Ardoin, N.M., Thomsen, J.M., Wyman Roth, N., 2018. Exploring connections between environmental learning and behavior through four everyday-life case studies. Environmental Education Research 1–27.
Gould, R.K., Ardoin, N., Krymkowski, D. 2018. The importance of culture in predicting environmental behavior in middle school students on Hawaiʻi Island. PLOS One. 13(11): e0207087. [Open Access PDF]
Gould, R.K., Ardoin, N.; Biggar, M.; Cravens, A. 2016. Environmental behavior’s dirty secret: The prevalence of waste-related discussions in community discussions of environmental action. Environmental Management.
Communication of Nature's Values and Sharing Research Results
Gould, R.K., Gonzalez, M.N. Research Note: Using science fiction and design thinking in workshops to share research results with low-income, under-represented community members. Science Communication.
Marquina, T., Fisher, B., Hackenburg, D., Gould, R.K. 2022. Lessons from an experiment with values-based messaging to support watershed conservation. Conservation Biology. [Journal website]
