Indicators for relational values of nature’s contributions to good quality of life: the IPBES approach for Europe and Central Asia
Authors
Schröter, MatthiasBaşak, Esra
Christie, Michael
Church, Andrew
Keune, Hans
Osipova, Elena
Oteros-Rozas, Elisa
Sievers-Glotzbach, Stefanie
van Oudenhoven, Alexander P. E.
Balvanera, Patricia
González, David
Jacobs, Sander
Molnár, Zsolt
Pascual, Unai
Martin-Lopez, Berta
Issue Date
2020-01-10Subjects
nature’s contributions to peopleecosystem services
biodiversity
wellbeing
human wellbeing
quality of life
human-nature relationship
environmental ethics
indigenous and local knowledge
Subject Categories::F810 Environmental Geography
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Relational values are values of desirable relationships between people and nature and among people (through nature). We report on the approach to capture relational values of nature's contributions to people in the regional assessment for Europe and Central Asia of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). We present a framework considering indicators along four relational value dimensions about people's relationships with nature: security and sovereignty; health; equity and justice; and heritage, social identity and stewardship. The framework has been operationalized for three nature's contributions to people (NCP): regulation of freshwater quality and quantity, food and feed, and physical and psychological experiences derived from nature. We identify ways to empirically assess relational values of nature's contributions to people at regional and continental scales with social-ecological indicators and proxies, ranging from biophysical indicators to indicators that intersect socio-economic with biophysical data. We conclude that many of the identified indicators can be considered as useful proxies of relational values in a quantitative way. The analysis shows that relational values are essential to consider at the science-policy interface as they are an important set of values that people hold about nature and that go beyond instrumental relations.Citation
Schröter M, Başak E, Christie M, Church A, Keune H, Osipova E, Oteros-Rozas E, Sievers-Glotzbach S, van Oudenhoven A Balvanera P, González D, Jacobs S, Molnár Z, Pascual U, Martin-Lopez B (2020) 'Indicators for relational values of nature’s contributions to good quality of life: the IPBES approach for Europe and Central Asia', Ecosystems and people, 16 (1), pp.50-69.Publisher
Taylor & FrancisJournal
Ecosystems and peopleAdditional Links
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26395916.2019.1703039Type
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2639-5908EISSN
2639-5916ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/26395916.2019.1703039
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