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A rosetta stone for nature's benefits to people

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Díaz, Sandra ; Demissew, Sebsebe ; Joly, Carlos ; Lonsdale, W. Mark ; Larigauderie, Anne

PLoS Biology

2021

13

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e1002040

biodiversity ; environmental impact assessment ; sustainable development ; human development ; well being

Social sciences

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002040

English

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"After a long incubation period, the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is now underway. Underpinning all its activities is the IPBES Conceptual Framework (CF), a simplified model of the interactions between nature and people. Drawing on the legacy of previous large-scale environmental assessments, the CF goes further in explicitly embracing different disciplines and knowledge systems (including indigenous and local knowledge) in the co-construction of assessments of the state of the world's biodiversity and the benefits it provides to humans. The CF can be thought of as a kind of “Rosetta Stone” that highlights commonalities between diverse value sets and seeks to facilitate crossdisciplinary and crosscultural understanding. We argue that the CF will contribute to the increasing trend towards interdisciplinarity in understanding and managing the environment. Rather than displacing disciplinary science, however, we believe that the CF will provide new contexts of discovery and policy applications for it."

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