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Diaz, SandraPascual, Unai
Stenseke, Marie
Martin-Lopez, Berta
Watson, Robert T.
Molnár, Zsolt
Hill, Rosemary
Chan, Kai M.A.
Baste, Ivar A.
Brauman, Kate A.
Polasky, Stephen
Church, Andrew
Lonsdale, Mark
Larigauderie, Anne
Leadley, Paul W.
van Oudenhoven, Alexander P. E.
van der Plaat, Felice
Schröter, Matthias
Lavorel, Sandra
Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Yildiz
Bukvareva, Elena
Davies, Kirsten
Demissew, Sebsebe
Erpul, Gunay
Failler, Pierre
Guerra, Carlos A.
Hewid, Chad L.
Keune, Hans
Lindley, Sarah
Shirayama, Yoshihisa
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2018-01-19
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A major challenge today and into the future is to maintain or enhance beneficial contributions of nature to a good quality of life for all people. This is among the key motivations of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), a joint global effort by governments, academia, and civil society to assess and promote knowledge of Earth's biodiversity and ecosystems and their contribution to human societies in order to inform policy formulation. One of the more recent key elements of the IPBES conceptual framework (1) is the notion of nature's contributions to people (NCP), which builds on the ecosystem service concept popularized by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) (2). But as we detail below, NCP as defined and put into practice in IPBES differs from earlier work in several important ways. First, the NCP approach recognizes the central and pervasive role that culture plays in defining all links between people and nature. Second, use of NCP elevates, emphasizes, and operationalizes the role of indigenous and local knowledge in understanding nature's contribution to people.Citation
Diaz S, Pascual U, Stenseke M, Martín-López B, Watson R, Molnár Z, Hill R, Chan K, Baste I, Brauman K, Polasky S, Church A, Lonsdale M, Larigauderie A, Leadley P, van Oudenhoven A, van der Plaat F, Schröter M, Lavorel S, Aumeeruddy-Thomas Y, Bukvareva E, Davies K, Demissew S, Erpul G, Failler P, Guerra C, Hewid C, Keune H, Lindley S, Shirayama Y (2018) 'Assessing nature's contributions to people', Science, 359 (6373), pp.270-272.Journal
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This is the author’s version of the work. It is posted here by permission of the AAAS for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Science 359(6373) on 19/01/2018, DOI: 10.1126/science.aap8826ISSN
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1095-9203ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1126/science.aap8826
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