The Value Creation in Our “Regime D’historicité”

The contemporary world grapples with an array of crises encompassing climate upheaval, global pandemics, ecological degradation, species loss, and deep-seated inequality. The intricate interconnections among these challenges align with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Overcoming these crises demands sweeping transformations affecting economies, institutions, values, beliefs, and worldviews, shaping our relationship with the environment. The ‘Green Deal’ underscores the significance of radical value realignment and introduces a European sustainability competence framework to drive ecological learning within the EU. This article elucidates how the appraisal discipline can ignite fresh values, mindsets, and conduct, steering us towards a sustainable future. Through the prism of the value creation process and our historical context, we explore the potential of adopting a historical perspective, as conceptualized by Hartog, which encompasses society’s treatment and dialogue about its past. By embracing this vantage point, intertwined with the realms of science history, psychology, anthropology, and transdisciplinary mode-2 science, emerges the potential for a novel epistemology for prevailing sustainability narratives. This article posits that the appraisal discipline holds the potential to contribute to shaping this evolving epistemological landscape.