Valuing nature's contributions to people: the IPBES approach

By U. Pascual, P. Balvanera, S. Díaz, G. Pataki, E. Roth, M. Stenseke, R. Watson, E. B. Dessane, M. Islar, E. Kelemen and 38 more. 2017

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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.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change

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Environmental Governance for the Anthropocene? Social-Ecological Systems, Resilience, and Collaborative Learning (2017, methodology): “The work of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment has been extended by IPBES, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, and some of these terms and concepts are under revision [26,27].”
Getting the message right on nature‐based solutions to climate change (2021, positive): “Integrated val - uation can promote more equitable and inclusive governance of NbS (Liquete et al., 2016; Pascual et al., 2017); scenario analyses can help to identify policies that minimize trade-offs (Metzger et al., 2017) and quantification of trade-offs can be used support participatory…”
Impacts of Plastic Pollution on Ecosystem Services, Sustainable Development Goals, and Need to Focus on Circular Economy and Policy Interventions (2021, background): “The public health concern will directly lead to lowering the HDI (Human Development Index) and simultaneously will be a major hurdle for achieving the SDGs targets [171,172].”
Monitoring biodiversity change through effective global coordination (2017, background): “Monitoring ecosystem services Monitoring the contribution of nature to people [63] is critical to inform policy [64,65].”
Twenty years of ecosystem services: How far have we come and how far do we still need to go? (2017, background): “It presents the valuation approach as stressing ‘‘pluralism” (Pascual et al., 2017).”