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Diverse values of nature for sustainability

authored by: Unai Pascual, Patricia Balvanera, Christopher B. Anderson, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Michael Christie, David González-Jiménez, Adrian Martin, Christopher M. Raymond, Mette Termansen, Arild Vatn, Simone Athayde, Brigitte Baptiste, David N. Barton, Sander Jacobs, Eszter Kelemen, Ritesh Kumar, Elena Lazos, Tuyeni H. Mwampamba, Barbara Nakangu, Patrick O’Farrell, Suneetha M. Subramanian, Meine van Noordwijk, So Eun Ahn, Sacha Amaruzaman, Ariane M. Amin, Paola Arias-Arévalo, Gabriela Arroyo-Robles, Mariana Cantú-Fernández, Antonio J. Castro, Victoria Contreras, Alta De Vos, Nicolas Dendoncker, Stefanie Engel, Uta Eser, Daniel P. Faith, Anna Filyushkina, Houda Ghazi, Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Rachelle K. Gould, Louise Guibrunet, Haripriya Gundimeda, Thomas Hahn, Zuzana V. Harmáčková, Marcello Hernández-Blanco, Andra Ioana Horcea-Milcu, Mariaelena Huambachano, Natalia Lutti Hummel Wicher, Cem İskender Aydın, Mine Islar, Ann Kathrin Koessler, Jasper O. Kenter, Marina Kosmus, Heera Lee, Beria Leimona, Sharachchandra Lele, Dominic Lenzi, Bosco Lliso, Lelani M. Mannetti, Juliana Merçon, Ana Sofía Monroy-Sais, Nibedita Mukherjee, Barbara Muraca, Roldan Muradian, Ranjini Murali, Sara H. Nelson, Gabriel R. Nemogá-Soto, Jonas Ngouhouo-Poufoun, Aidin Niamir, Emmanuel Nuesiri, Tobias O. Nyumba, Begüm Özkaynak, Ignacio Palomo, Ram Pandit, Agnieszka Pawłowska-Mainville, Luciana Porter-Bolland, Martin Quaas, Julian Rode, Ricardo Rozzi, Sonya Sachdeva, Aibek Samakov, Marije Schaafsma, Nadia Sitas, Paula Ungar, Evonne Yiu, Yuki Yoshida, Eglee Zent
Abstract: Twenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystem services for human well-being^1,2, addressing the global biodiversity crisis³ still implies confronting barriers to incorporating nature’s diverse values into decision-making. These barriers include powerful interests supported by current norms and legal rules such as property rights, which determine whose values and which values of nature are acted on. A better understanding of how and why nature is (under)valued is more urgent than ever⁴. Notwithstanding agreements to incorporate nature’s values into actions, including the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)⁵ and the UN Sustainable Development Goals⁶, predominant environmental and development policies still prioritize a subset of values, particularly those linked to markets, and ignore other ways people relate to and benefit from nature⁷. Arguably, a ‘values crisis’ underpins the intertwined crises of biodiversity loss and climate change⁸, pandemic emergence⁹ and socio-environmental injustices¹⁰. On the basis of more than 50,000 scientific publications, policy documents and Indigenous and local knowledge sources, the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) assessed knowledge on nature’s diverse values and valuation methods to gain insights into their role in policymaking and fuller integration into decisions^7,11. Applying this evidence, combinations of values-centred approaches are proposed to improve valuation and address barriers to uptake, ultimately leveraging transformative changes towards more just (that is, fair treatment of people and nature, including inter- and intragenerational equity) and sustainable futures.
Organisation(s): Institute of Environmental Planning
Environmental Behaviour and Planning
Leibniz Research Centre Energy 2050
External Organisation(s): Basque Centre for Climate Change
Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science
University of Bern
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Universidad Nacional de Tierra del Fuego (ICPA-UNTDF)
CONICET
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Italy
University of Minnesota
Global Resilience Partnership
University of East Anglia
University of Helsinki
University of Copenhagen
Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Florida International University
University of EAN
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA)
Belgian National Fund Scientific Research
Belgian Biodiversity Platform
Environmental social science research group (ESSRG)
Wetlands International South Asia
Sokoine University of Agriculture
University of the Western Cape
United Nations University - Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources - UNU-FLORES
United Nations
Center for International Forestry Research, West Java
Wageningen University and Research
Brawijaya University
Korea Environment Institute (KEI)
University of Cocody
Centre Suisse de Recherche Scientifique
Universidad del Valle
University of Almeria
Rhodes University
University of Stellenbosch
Osnabrück University
University of Sydney
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
OCP Foundation
University of Vermont
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)
Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC)
Czech Academy of Sciences
University of Kassel
Syracuse University
Fundacao Getulio Vargas
Bogazici University
Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS)
Ecologos Research Ltd
Univ. York, Dep. Comput. Sci., Non-Stand. Comput. Group
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GIZ
Konkuk University
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
ATREE
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune
Shiv Nadar University
University of Twente
World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA)
Georgia State University
Universidad Veracruzana
Brunel University
University of Oregon
Universidade Federal Fluminense
The Snow Leopard Trust
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
University of British Columbia
University of Winnipeg
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan
Congo Basin Institute (CBI)
LOEWE Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
African Leadership College (ALC)
African Conservation Centre
University Grenoble-Alpes (UGA)
University of Western Australia
Hokkaido University
University of Northern British Columbia
Nicolaus Copernicus University
Instituto de Ecologia, A.C.
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)
UNIVERSIDAD DE MAGALLANES
University of North Texas
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Aigine Cultural Research Center
University of Southampton
Field Museum of Natural History
Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC
National Institute for Environmental Studies of Japan
Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas
Aberystwyth University
University of Tübingen
University of Namur
Type: Article
Journal: NATURE
Volume: 620
ISSN: 0028-0836
Publication date: 24.08.2023
Publication status: Published
Peer reviewed: Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas: General
Sustainable Development Goals: SDG 13 - Climate Action
Electronic version(s): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06406-9 (Access: Open)

BibTeX

@article{97aa4ee2474d439ea56a424f89cd0af5,
title = "Diverse values of nature for sustainability",
abstract = "Twenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystem services for human well-being 1,2, addressing the global biodiversity crisis 3 still implies confronting barriers to incorporating nature{\textquoteright}s diverse values into decision-making. These barriers include powerful interests supported by current norms and legal rules such as property rights, which determine whose values and which values of nature are acted on. A better understanding of how and why nature is (under)valued is more urgent than ever 4. Notwithstanding agreements to incorporate nature{\textquoteright}s values into actions, including the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) 5 and the UN Sustainable Development Goals 6, predominant environmental and development policies still prioritize a subset of values, particularly those linked to markets, and ignore other ways people relate to and benefit from nature 7. Arguably, a {\textquoteleft}values crisis{\textquoteright} underpins the intertwined crises of biodiversity loss and climate change 8, pandemic emergence 9 and socio-environmental injustices 10. On the basis of more than 50,000 scientific publications, policy documents and Indigenous and local knowledge sources, the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) assessed knowledge on nature{\textquoteright}s diverse values and valuation methods to gain insights into their role in policymaking and fuller integration into decisions 7,11. Applying this evidence, combinations of values-centred approaches are proposed to improve valuation and address barriers to uptake, ultimately leveraging transformative changes towards more just (that is, fair treatment of people and nature, including inter- and intragenerational equity) and sustainable futures.",
author = "Unai Pascual and Patricia Balvanera and Anderson, {Christopher B.} and Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer and Michael Christie and David Gonz{\'a}lez-Jim{\'e}nez and Adrian Martin and Raymond, {Christopher M.} and Mette Termansen and Arild Vatn and Simone Athayde and Brigitte Baptiste and Barton, {David N.} and Sander Jacobs and Eszter Kelemen and Ritesh Kumar and Elena Lazos and Mwampamba, {Tuyeni H.} and Barbara Nakangu and Patrick O{\textquoteright}Farrell and Subramanian, {Suneetha M.} and {van Noordwijk}, Meine and Ahn, {So Eun} and Sacha Amaruzaman and Amin, {Ariane M.} and Paola Arias-Ar{\'e}valo and Gabriela Arroyo-Robles and Mariana Cant{\'u}-Fern{\'a}ndez and Castro, {Antonio J.} and Victoria Contreras and {De Vos}, Alta and Nicolas Dendoncker and Stefanie Engel and Uta Eser and Faith, {Daniel P.} and Anna Filyushkina and Houda Ghazi and Erik G{\'o}mez-Baggethun and Gould, {Rachelle K.} and Louise Guibrunet and Haripriya Gundimeda and Thomas Hahn and Harm{\'a}{\v c}kov{\'a}, {Zuzana V.} and Marcello Hern{\'a}ndez-Blanco and Horcea-Milcu, {Andra Ioana} and Mariaelena Huambachano and Wicher, {Natalia Lutti Hummel} and Aydın, {Cem İskender} and Mine Islar and Koessler, {Ann Kathrin} and Kenter, {Jasper O.} and Marina Kosmus and Heera Lee and Beria Leimona and Sharachchandra Lele and Dominic Lenzi and Bosco Lliso and Mannetti, {Lelani M.} and Juliana Mer{\c c}on and Monroy-Sais, {Ana Sof{\'i}a} and Nibedita Mukherjee and Barbara Muraca and Roldan Muradian and Ranjini Murali and Nelson, {Sara H.} and Nemog{\'a}-Soto, {Gabriel R.} and Jonas Ngouhouo-Poufoun and Aidin Niamir and Emmanuel Nuesiri and Nyumba, {Tobias O.} and Beg{\"u}m {\"O}zkaynak and Ignacio Palomo and Ram Pandit and Agnieszka Paw{\l}owska-Mainville and Luciana Porter-Bolland and Martin Quaas and Julian Rode and Ricardo Rozzi and Sonya Sachdeva and Aibek Samakov and Marije Schaafsma and Nadia Sitas and Paula Ungar and Evonne Yiu and Yuki Yoshida and Eglee Zent",
note = "Funding Information: We are grateful to the IPBES, whose 139-member states commissioned the Values Assessment and approved its Summary for Policymakers. We are also grateful for the contributions to the assessment{\textquoteright}s review editors: S. Anderson, S. Baker, J. Camilo Cardenas, J. Cari{\~n}o, K. Chan, J. Farley, C. Okereke, L. Pereira, E. Raez, H. Vessuri and R. Watson; the members of the management committee: B. Vil{\'a}, A. D{\'i}az-de-Le{\'o}n, C. Diaw, M. Avdibegovic, J. Marton-Lefevre and R. Allahverdiyev, and the more than 200 contributing authors who provided specific input to the full report. We express our gratitude to IPBES Executive Secretary A. Larigauderie and IPBES Chair A. M. Hern{\'a}ndez for their strategic vision and continued advice. We received no specific funding for this work; all authors involved in IPBES do so on a voluntary basis. The IPBES Values Assessment was made possible thanks to many generous contributions, including non-earmarked contributions to the IPBES trust fund from governments. All donors are listed on the IPBES website www.ipbes.net/donors . U.P. acknowledges BC3{\textquoteright}s Maria de Maeztu excellence accreditation 2023–2026 (reference no. CEX2021-001201-M) provided by grant no. MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. ",
year = "2023",
month = aug,
day = "24",
doi = "10.1038/s41586-023-06406-9",
language = "English",
volume = "620",
journal = "NATURE",
issn = "0028-0836",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
}