| Title |
Biodiversity and ecosystem services require IPBES to take novel approach to scenarios
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Sustainability Science, February 2016
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11625-016-0354-8 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Marcel T. J. Kok, Kasper Kok, Garry D. Peterson, Rosemary Hill, John Agard, Stephen R. Carpenter |
| Abstract |
What does the future hold for the world's ecosystems and benefits that people obtain from them? While the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has identified the development of scenarios as a key to helping decision makers identify potential impacts of different policy options, it currently lacks a long-term scenario strategy. IPBES will decide how it will approach scenarios at its plenary meeting on 22-28 February 2016, in Kuala Lumpur. IPBES now needs to decide whether it should create new scenarios that better explore ecosystem services and biodiversity dynamics. For IPBES to capture the social-ecological dynamics of biodiversity and ecosystem services, it is essential to engage with the great diversity of local contexts, while also including the global tele-coupling among local places. We present and compare three alternative scenario strategies that IPBES could use and then suggest a bottom-up, cross-scale scenario strategy to improve the policy relevance of future IPBES assessments. We propose five concrete steps as part of an effective, long term scenario development process for IPBES in cooperation with the scientific community. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| United States | 8 | 11% |
| Canada | 6 | 8% |
| Sweden | 6 | 8% |
| Germany | 5 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 4% |
| Australia | 2 | 3% |
| Spain | 2 | 3% |
| Netherlands | 2 | 3% |
| Ecuador | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 13 | 18% |
| Unknown | 23 | 32% |
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| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 47 | 65% |
| Scientists | 23 | 32% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 3% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Sweden | 4 | 1% |
| Germany | 2 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Colombia | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 333 | 96% |
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| Researcher | 77 | 22% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 53 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 47 | 14% |
| Other | 29 | 8% |
| Professor | 17 | 5% |
| Other | 57 | 16% |
| Unknown | 66 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Environmental Science | 149 | 43% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 62 | 18% |
| Social Sciences | 21 | 6% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 9 | 3% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 7 | 2% |
| Other | 16 | 5% |
| Unknown | 82 | 24% |
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