Diverse values of nature for sustainability
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In: Nature Volume 620 / (2023-08-09) , S. 813-823; eissn:1476-4687
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Twenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystem services for human well-being, addressing the global biodiversity crisis 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 ever. Notwithstanding agreements to incorporate nature’s values into actions, including the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, 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. Arguably, a ‘values crisis’ underpins the intertwined crises of biodiversity loss and climate change, pandemic emergence and socio-environmental injustices. 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. 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.
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author ={Pascual, Unai and Balvanera, Patricia and Anderson, Christopher B. and Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca and Christie, Michael and González-Jiménez, David and Martin, Adrian and Raymond, Christopher Mark and Temansen, Mette and Vatn, Arild and Athayde, Simone and Baptiste, Brigitte and Barton, David Nicholas and Jacobs, Sander and Kelemen, Eszter and Kumar, Ritesh and Lazos, Elena and Mwampamba, Tuyeni H. and Nakangu, Barbara and O’Farrell, Patrick and Subramanian, Suneetha Mazhenchery and van Noordwijk, Meine and Ahn, SoEun and Amaruzaman, Sacha and Amin, Ariane M. and Arias-Arévalo, Paola and Arroyo-Robles, Gabriela and Cantú-Fernández, Mariana and Castro Martínez, Antonio J. and Contreras, Victoria and De Vos, Alta and Dendoncker, Nicolas and Engel, Stefanie and Eser, Uta and Faith, Daniel P. and Filyushkina, Anna and Ghazi, Houda and Gómez-Baggethun, Erik and Gould, Rachelle K. and Guibrunet, Louise and Gundimeda, Haripriya and Hahn, Thomas and Harmáčková, Zuzana Veronika and Hernández-Blanco, Marcello and Horcea-Milcu, Andra-Ioana and Huambachano, Mariaelena and Lutti Hummel Wicher, Natalia and Aydın, Cem İskender and Islar, Mine and Kössler, Ann-Kathrin and Kenter, Jasper O. and Kosmus, Marina and Lee, Heera and Leimona, Beria and Lele, Sharachchandra and Lenzi, Dominic and Lliso, Bosco and Mannetti, Lelani M. and Merçon, Juliana and Monroy-Sais, Ana Sofía and Mukherjee, Nibedita and Muraca, Barbara and Muradian, Roldan and Murali, Ranjini and Nelson, Sara Holiday and Nemogá-Soto, Gabriel Ricardo and Ngouhouo-Poufoun, Jonas and Niamir, Aidin and Nuesiri, Emmanuel and Nyumba, Tobias Ochieng and Özkaynak, Begüm and Palomo, Ignacio and Pandit, Ram and Pawłowska-Mainville, Agnieszka and Porter-Bolland, Luciana and Quaas, Martin and Rode, Julian and Rozzi, Ricardo and Sachdeva, Sonya and Samakov, Aibek and Schaafsma, Marije and Sitas, Nadia and Ungar, Paula and Yiu, Evonne and Yoshida, Yuki and Zent, Eglee},
title ={Diverse values of nature for sustainability},
keywords ={300 and Ökologie and Nachhaltigkeit and Natur and Wert and Entscheidungsfindung},
copyright ={http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
language ={en},
journal ={Nature},
year ={2023-08-09}
}