The sustainability challenges facing societies call for policies and governance systems that are attuned to the diversity of goods that support and enrich human life via ecological, technical and other kinds of systems, and to the plurality of values that people hold across diverse cultures and belief systems. A pluralistic evaluation framework (PEF) is here presented as a tool for considering diverse kinds of goodness as perceived by diverse stakeholders in the design and evaluation of policies or projects. It arises from considering a suite of aspects of meaning (biotic, economic, aesthetic, etc.) at each of three stages, namely: identifying relevant stakeholders, mapping real-world systems and assessing modes of valuing. This framework, drawing on the philosophical work of Herman Dooyeweerd and Dirk Vollenhoven, offers a joined-up, participatory approach to policymaking. We report pilot trials of the PEF with groups of policymakers at a series of workshops, demonstrating that it provides additional perspectives and unification of core issues and can be used in a wide range of areas of policymaking and project assessment. We also illustrate its potential application to a controversial environmental project and outline how a pluralistic evaluation framework can be used in tandem with existing frameworks.

社会面临的可持续性挑战要求政策和治理体系适应通过生态、技术和其他类型的系统支持和丰富人类生活的商品多样性，以及人们在不同文化和信仰体系中持有的多元化价值观. 多元评估框架 (PEF) 在这里作为一种工具，用于考虑不同利益相关者在政策或项目的设计和评估中所感知的各种善。它源于在三个阶段中的每一个阶段考虑一系列意义方面（生物、经济、美学等），即：识别相关利益相关者、绘制现实世界系统和评估估值模式。这个框架借鉴了 Herman Dooyeweerd 和 Dirk Vollenhoven 的哲学著作，提供了一个联合的，参与性的政策制定方法。我们在一系列研讨会上与决策者小组报告了 PEF 的试点试验，证明它提供了额外的视角和核心问题的统一，并可用于广泛的决策和项目评估领域。我们还说明了它在一个有争议的环境项目中的潜在应用，并概述了如何将多元化评估框架与现有框架结合使用。