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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon BREED, Christina Alida (Ida) Born: Landscape Architect BLArch 1998, Landscape Architecture, Distinction in Design & Design Communication (Pretoria); M(Des) 2003: Design & Urban Studies, Cum laude, (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico); Post-Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, 2010: cum laude; PhD 2015, (Pretoria). Title of PhD thesis; Social production of ecosystem services through the articulation of values in landscape design practice in South Africa. Supervisor; Prof RC FISHER. In the thesis the promovenda considered how to operationalise values in landscape design practice so as to achieve a balanced social production of ecosystem services. The dual methods of constructivist content analysis and interpretivist analysis of semi-structured interviews were used. The combined findings indicate that, contrary to what scientific literature and theory propound, landscape design practitioners perceive cultural and regulating ecosystem services as more important than provisioning or supporting services. In their concerns with ecosystem services and value preferences, designers neglect intrinsic and fundamental values of nature and intangible values in landscapes. In response, social practices that show potential for the operationalisation of values in the profession are identified. From these, award systems are selected because they provide both intrinsic and extrinsic incentives and show best potential for the South African context. In the study it is recommended that the awards criteria specifically articulate all functional values of biodiversity, all categories of ecosystem services, all nature values and reflect both tangible and intangible landscape values. Operationalisation as part of the awards systems can be achieved in five ways: through social rituals, alignment with existing values, the concepts of multi-functionality and cultural services, and examples of best practice.