Published 2015
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The IPBES Conceptual Framework - connecting nature and people

Creators

  • 1. National University of Cordoba
  • 2. Addis Ababa University
  • 3. National Autonomous University of Mexico
  • 4. State University of Campinas
  • 5. United Nations Environment Programme
  • 6. UNESCO
  • 7. United States Department of Agriculture
  • 8. Indiana University
  • 9. University of British Columbia
  • 10. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
  • 11. University of Paris-Sud
  • 12. Landcare Research
  • 13. University College London
  • 14. Autonomous University of Madrid
  • 15. University of Cambridge
  • 16. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
  • 17. University of Southern Denmark
  • 18. United Nations University
  • 19. Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources and Environment
  • 20. Virginia Tech
  • 21. The Nature Conservancy
  • 22. University of the South Pacific
  • 23. University of East Anglia
  • 24. Kyushu University
  • 25. King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
  • 26. University of Washington
  • 27. Budapest University of Technology and Economics
  • 28. Environmental Law Institute
  • 29. Ankara University
  • 30. University of Portsmouth
  • 31. Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • 32. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
  • 33. Kyoto University
  • 34. Joseph Fourier University
  • 35. National Scientific and Technical Research Council
  • 36. University of Yaoundé
  • 37. Polish Academy of Sciences
  • 38. University of São Paulo
  • 39. École Normale Supérieure
  • 40. University of Otago
  • 41. Stanford University
  • 42. University of Queensland
  • 43. Azim Premji University
  • 44. Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
  • 45. University of Ghana
  • 46. Corvinus University of Budapest
  • 47. Stockholm University
  • 48. Lakehead University
  • 49. Indian Institute of Forest Management
  • 50. Seoul National University
  • 51. Sofia University

Description

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 on co-construction of integrative knowledge is shared by an increasing number of initiatives worldwide, this framework should be useful beyond IPBES, for the wider research and knowledge-policy communities working on the links between nature and people, such as natural, social and engineering scientists, policy-makers at different levels, and decision-makers in different sectors of society.
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