Authors
Sandra Dı´ az, Sebsebe Demissew, Julia Carabias, Carlos Joly, Mark Lonsdale, Neville Ash, Anne Larigauderie, Jay Ram Adhikari, Salvatore Arico, Andra´ s Ba´ ldi, Ann Bartuska, Ivar Andreas Baste, Adem Bilgin, Kai MA Chan Eduardo Brondizio14, Viviana Elsa Figueroa, Anantha Duraiappah, Markus Fischer, Rosemary Hill, Thomas Koetz, Paul Leadley, Philip Lyver, Georgina M Mace, Berta Martin-Lopez, Michiko Okumura, Diego Pacheco, Unai Pascual, Edgar Selvin Pe´ rez, Belinda Reyers, Eva Roth, Osamu Saito, Robert John Scholes, Nalini Sharma, Heather Tallis, Randolph Thaman, Robert Watson, Tetsukazu Yahara, Zakri Abdul Hamid, Callistus Akosim, Yousef Al-Hafedh, Rashad Allahverdiyev, Edward Amankwah, Stanley T Asah, Zemede Asfaw, Gabor Bartus, Anathea L Brooks, Jorge Caillaux, Gemedo Dalle, Dedy Darnaedi, Amanda Driver, Pablo Escobar-Eyzaguirre Gunay Erpul, Pierre Failler, Ali Moustafa Mokhtar Fouda, Bojie Fu, Haripriya Gundimeda, Shizuka Hashimoto, Floyd Homer, Sandra Lavorel, Gabriela Lichten
Publication date
2015
Journal
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Volume
14
Pages
1-16
Publisher
Elsevier, Science Direct
Description
Highlights
- We describe the IPBES Conceptual Framework.
- It is a simplified model of interactions between nature and people most relevant to IPBES's focus on sustainability.
- It facilitates interoperability among disciplines, stakeholders and knowledge systems.
The first public product of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is its Conceptual Framework. This conceptual and analytical tool, presented here in detail, will underpin all IPBES functions and provide structure and comparability to the syntheses that IPBES will produce at different spatial scales, on different themes, and in different regions. Salient innovative aspects of the IPBES Conceptual Framework are its transparent and participatory construction process and its explicit consideration of diverse scientific disciplines, stakeholders, and knowledge systems, including indigenous and local knowledge. Because the focus …
Scholar articles
S Díaz, S Demissew, J Carabias, C Joly, M Lonsdale… - Current opinion in environmental sustainability, 2015