Glossary entry

Dutch term or phrase:

belevingswaarde

English translation:

experiential value

Added to glossary by Anne Key
Apr 8, 2005 20:43
19 yrs ago
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Dutch term

belevingswaarde

Dutch to English Social Sciences Economics
I am currently working on a translation on combined functions in coastal defence zones, and am struggling with the above term.

The context is as follows:

Onder belevingswaarde wordt verstaan een verzameling van omgevingskenmerken die burgers belangrijk vinden [...]Het Belevingswaardenonderzoek is bij de Bouwdienst Rijkswaterstaat ontwikkeld om de kwaliteit van de leefomgeving vanuit het perspectief van de burgers mee te laten wegen in een planstudie/MER.

I have seen the term translated as 'amenity value'. However, this term does not cover the concept of 'perception' (beleving). Could I use 'emotional value', as A.J. de Keizer ("Financieel Economisch Lexicon") suggests?

As always, all suggestions are welcome, and KudoZ points will be awarded within 72 hours.

Many thanks,

Pikey

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experiential value

Another option; a fairly direct translation.

From the google hits, 'experiential' is used in this sense (and not only in translations of Dutch texts), although it also has the meaning 'value of experience (in a particular field, etc.).

sample refs:

Delft Dissertations Title Knowledge-based Design: Developing Urban ...
... moment is called the composition of the urban area or urban landscape. ...the creation of an experiential value guided by personal form concepts is ...
www.library.tudelft.nl/dissertations/ 2940/f_007443_true_EN.html

Current Research - Other Research / Instructional / Community ...
... one can both contribute to the understanding of its experiential value and to an ... historic preservation, urban planning, and landscape architecture. ...
www.uwm.edu/Dept/CAUPR/current_othersecond.htm

[PDF] The social and cultural value of place names
... the individual certain place-names may have a special experiential value. ...landscape protection areas. And not least one can bring to life the name ...
unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/N0246693.pdf


[PDF] Untitled
... and frequently reduce the economic, aesthetic, and experiential value. the system may provide to the community. As an urban stream, the value of NRM and ...
slaggarden.cfa.cmu.edu/publications/ content/conservplan/dcnr2.5j.pdf
Peer comment(s):

agree Deborah do Carmo : yes or perceptual, goes beyond aesthetic as I read it
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agree Arsen Nazarian
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "This was the exact translation I was looking for. Excellent refs also. "
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affinity with one’s environment

I can’t think of a literal translation covered by a single term. While ‘emotional value’, as suggested by A.J. de Keizer, may be a little too sentimental in this context, the second instance of ‘Belevingswaardenonderzoek’ could be rendered as ‘A survey into the level of affinity with one’s environment’.
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amenity / scenic value of the landscape

gevonden in Websers online. Ook voldoende google hits.
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aesthetic value

This is a common term and covers the "perception" element.

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\"1. Structural engineering
- Structural Engineering is a judicious mixture of science and art, because while Structural Engineers analyze and design the load-bearing structure of buildings, bridges, wharves, tanks and retaining walls, they consider their aesthetic value too.\"

http://www.unixl.com/dir/maths_and_engineering/civll/civil_e...

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\" •Aesthetic value Sensitivity to physical and perceptual changes in the biophysical environment.

Sensitivity to low level, chronic discharges that might change the physical or perceptual quality of the environment.

Sensitivity to materials or wastes that, while individually benign, might erode natural capital when combined.

Sensitivity to non-productive value of natural capital (option or existence value).\"

http://www.abbottstrategies.com/papers/intogreat.html

(You might take the example of the above and use \"perceptual value\" - a more literal translation of \"belevingswaarde\")
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