While the number of studies incorporating deliberation in monetary and non-monetary valuation of ecosystem services is increasing, there is a limited theoretical basis to how values are influenced and shaped in social valuation processes.
By the end of our 72 hours of deliberations, a number of important strategies and recommendations to Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) were tentatively agreed upon.
In the UK, GPs often consider the judging of whether or not a patient is fit for work, to be a "highly complex process, involving reconsideration, uncertainty, and a number of stages and types of deliberation" [ 41].
Thus they winnow down to manageable size the number of considerations relevant to deliberation, and help to provide, in any particular situation, the indispensable framework without which the question of rationality could not even be considered.
14 There are a number of controversial issues for deliberation around this elective surgery (eg, what criteria should be used to prioritise access? Should any population subgroup/s receive priority?) A DCE will be designed to quantify the relative importance of and implied trade-offs between priority-setting criteria for surgical management of obesity.
On Wednesday morning, after more than a day of deliberations, the panel wrote: "A number of jurors are having serious personality conflicts with Juror No. 1, making it difficult to continue our deliberations".
The Committee also held deliberations with a number of stakeholders which included the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), Civil Society Organizations and Child Rights Experts.
From my outsider perspective, I hope that these deliberations include a number of critical questions: First, how to bring sustainability reporting to the hundreds of thousands of private companies worldwide to complement GRI's strength with publicly-listed firms.
"I want to express my grave concern," the note said, "about a statement made by one of the jurors, which was, in substance, that she is convinced that a number of jurors had entered into the deliberations with a pre-existing bias based on their previous knowledge of the case, and as a result, those jurors have already found and concluded their opinions even before deliberations began".
A draft of the document was discussed at a meeting on 7 January but has since been re-drafted after prolonged deliberations over a number of months.
