Valuing nature’s contributions to people: the IPBES approach

Unai Pascual; Patricia Balvanera; Sandra Díaz; György Pataki; Eva Roth; Marie Stenseke; Robert T Watson; Esra Başak Dessane; Mine Islar; Eszter Kelemen; Virginie Maris; Martin Quaas; Suneetha M Subramanian; Heidi Wittmer; Asia Adlan; SoEun Ahn; Yousef S Al-Hafedh; Edward Amankwah; Stanley T Asah; Pam Berry; Adem Bilgin; Sara J Breslow; Craig Bullock; Daniel Cáceres; Hamed Daly-Hassen; Eugenio Figueroa; Christopher D Golden; Erik Gómez-Baggethun; David González-Jiménez; Joël Houdet; Hans Keune; Ritesh Kumar; Keping Ma; Peter H May; Aroha Mead; Patrick O’Farrell; Ram Pandit; Walter Pengue; Ramón Pichis-Madruga; Florin Popa; Susan Preston; Diego Pacheco-Balanza; Heli Saarikoski; Bernardo B Strassburg; Marjan van den Belt; Madhu Verma; Fern Wickson; Noboyuki Yagi

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2016.12.006

Valuing nature’s contributions to people: the IPBES approach

Unai Pascual, Patricia Balvanera, Sandra Díaz, György Pataki, Eva Roth, Marie Stenseke, Robert T Watson, Esra Başak Dessane, Mine Islar, Eszter Kelemen, Virginie Maris, Martin Quaas, Suneetha M Subramanian, Heidi Wittmer, Asia Adlan, SoEun Ahn, Yousef S Al-Hafedh, Edward Amankwah, Stanley T Asah, Pam BerryAdem Bilgin, Sara J Breslow, Craig Bullock, Daniel Cáceres, Hamed Daly-Hassen, Eugenio Figueroa, Christopher D Golden, Erik Gómez-Baggethun, David González-Jiménez, Joël Houdet, Hans Keune, Ritesh Kumar, Keping Ma, Peter H May, Aroha Mead, Patrick O’Farrell, Ram Pandit, Walter Pengue, Ramón Pichis-Madruga, Florin Popa, Susan Preston, Diego Pacheco-Balanza, Heli Saarikoski, Bernardo B Strassburg, Marjan van den Belt, Madhu Verma, Fern Wickson, Noboyuki Yagi

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Nature is perceived and valued in starkly different and often conflicting ways. This paper presents the rationale for the inclusive valuation of nature’s contributions to people (NCP) in decision making, as well as broad methodological steps for doing so. While developed within the context of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), this approach is more widely applicable to initiatives at the knowledge–policy interface, which require a pluralistic approach to recognizing the diversity of values. We argue that transformative practices aiming at sustainable futures would benefit from embracing such diversity, which require recognizing and addressing power relationships across stakeholder groups that hold different values on human nature-relations and NCP.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	7-16
Number of pages	10
Journal	Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Volume	26-27
Early online date	23 Feb 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2016.12.006
Publication status	Published - Jun 2017

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Pascual, U., Balvanera, P., Díaz, S., Pataki, G., Roth, E., Stenseke, M., Watson, R. T., Başak Dessane, E., Islar, M., Kelemen, E., Maris, V., Quaas, M., Subramanian, S. M., Wittmer, H., Adlan, A., Ahn, S., Al-Hafedh, Y. S., Amankwah, E., Asah, S. T., ... Yagi, N. (2017). Valuing nature’s contributions to people: the IPBES approach. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 26-27, 7-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2016.12.006

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