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): Institut für Umweltplanung
Umweltverhalten und Planung
Leibniz Forschungszentrum Energie 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 (UNTDF)
CONICET
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
University of Minnesota
Global Resilience Partnership (GRP)
University of East Anglia
Universität Helsinki
Københavns Universitet
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)
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 and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
Wageningen University and Research
Brawijaya University
Korea Environment Institute (KEI)
University of Cocody
Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques (CSRS)
Universidad del Valle
University of Almeria
Rhodes University
University of Stellenbosch
Universität Osnabrück
Universität Sydney
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
OCP Foundation
University of Vermont
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)
Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC)
Akademie Věd České Republiky (AV ČR)
Universität Kassel
Syracuse University
Fundacao Getulio Vargas
Bogazici University
Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS)
Ecologos Research Ltd
University of York
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Konkuk University
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Ashoka Trust For Research In Ecology And The Environment (ATREE)
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune
Shiv Nadar University (SNU)
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 (HU 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 (ACC)
Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
University of Western Australia
Hokkaido University
University of Northern British Columbia
Nikolaus-Kopernikus-Universität Toruń
Instituto de Ecologia, A.C.
Deutsches Zentrum für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ)
UNIVERSIDAD DE MAGALLANES
University of North Texas
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Aigine Cultural Research Center (CRC)
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
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Université de Namur
Type: Artikel
Journal: NATURE
Volume: 620
ISSN: 0028-0836
Publication date: 24.08.2023
Publication status: Veröffentlicht
Peer reviewed: Yes
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete: Allgemein
Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung: SDG 13 – Klimaschutzmaßnahmen
Electronic version(s): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06406-9 (Access: Offen)