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- Barton, David N., et al.
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Value Expression in Decision-Making
- 2022
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In: Methodological Assessment Report on the Diverse Values and Valuation of Nature of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. - Bonn : The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). - 9783947851294 ; , s. 247-346
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This chapter links diverse values of nature as communicated through different value articulation (“valuing” and valuation) processes to decision-making and its outcomes. It reviews the underlying causes of treating impacts on nature as external to, and ignored in, decisions by current political, economic and socio-cultural actors and institutions (i.e., conventions, norms and rules), and describes how on-the-ground drivers of nature’s decline can be transformed towards recovery, focusing on land and sea use. The modalities and practice of explicit valuation of nature (preceding chapter) in support of decisions, and the decision-making processes themselves, may need to further evolve to achieve global sustainability goals, the CBD 2050 vision of living in harmony with nature and the recent Kunming Declaration of the CBD.
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- Ellison, David, et al.
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Trees, forests and water : Cool insights for a hot world
- 2017
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In: Global Environmental Change. - : Elsevier BV. - 0959-3780 .- 1872-9495. ; 43, s. 51-61
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Forest-driven water and energy cycles are poorly integrated into regional, national, continental and global decision-making on climate change adaptation, mitigation, land use and water management. This constrains humanity's ability to protect our planet's climate and life-sustaining functions. The substantial body of research we review reveals that forest, water and energy interactions provide the foundations for carbon storage, for cooling terrestrial surfaces and for distributing water resources. Forests and trees must be recognized as prime regulators within the water, energy and carbon cycles. If these functions are ignored, planners will be unable to assess, adapt to or mitigate the impacts of changing land cover and climate. Our call to action targets a reversal of paradigms, from a carbon-centric model to one that treats the hydrologic and climate-cooling effects of trees and forests as the first order of priority. For reasons of sustainability, carbon storage must remain a secondary, though valuable, by-product. The effects of tree cover on climate at local, regional and continental scales offer benefits that demand wider recognition. The forest- and tree-centered research insights we review and analyze provide a knowledge-base for improving plans, policies and actions. Our understanding of how trees and forests influence water, energy and carbon cycles has important implications, both for the structure of planning, management and governance institutions, as well as for how trees and forests might be used to improve sustainability, adaptation and mitigation efforts.
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- Erika, Speelman, et al.
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Games, sustainable developmental goals, local communities and natural resource management systems
- 2022
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In the field of natural resource management studies, the interest in games as boundary objects, and as research, learning and intervention tools, continues to grow strongly. The associated increased amount of published literature on games – ranging from water to forestry - suggests that games are seen as a promising tool in this applicative context. However, while the total number of papers reporting on games used in relation to natural resources is increasing, questions related to methodological aspects have not gained central stage in this growing body or literature. Against this background we launched the SESAM (Scenario Evaluation for Sustainable Agro-forestry Managementsesam.wur.nl) research programme coordinated at Wageningen University (WUR), where we aim to address some of these challenges. Over the past two years, SESAM has been actively working on questions related to the use of games. As part to the SESAM program, we have been reviewing literature, and other available material on this subject matter and we began to trace trends, themes,and gaps in current research. The work done suggests that theoretical and methodological aspects of game conceptualisation, development, and use, falls behind the fast-growing empirical base. In view of these findings, we organized an Expert Workshop with the broad objective to create space for exchange also with the ambition to gather, and reflect upon on the collective experiences on the challenges and opportunities of using games in work about natural resource management systems in October 2021. In this document, we summarize the outcomes of this expert event and describe some core questions that have emerged.
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- Islar, Mine, et al.
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Diverse values of nature for sustainability
- 2022
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In: Nature. - 0028-0836 .- 1476-4687. ; 620, s. 813-823
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Twenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystem services for human well-being1,2, 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 decisions7,11. 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.
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