Landscapes—a lens for assessing sustainability

Landscape Ecology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 40(2)

Published: Jan. 22, 2025

There are urgent calls to transition society more sustainable trajectories, at scales ranging from local global. Landscape sustainability (LS), or the capacity for landscapes provide equitable access ecosystem services essential human wellbeing both current and future generations, provides an operational approach monitor these transitions. However, complexity of complicates how what consider when assessing LS. To identify important features that remain challenging in LS assessments guidance strengthen assessments. We conducted two workshops complex under-considered assessments, developed guidelines on better incorporate features. open connected boundaries diversity values as landscape must be considered risk exacerbating offstage burdens power inequalities. avoid pitfalls which emphasize service interactions across interconnected incorporating actors' diverse values. Our a stepping stone researchers practitioners complexities into inform landscape-level decisions actions.

Language: Английский

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Editorial overview: Leveraging the multiple values of nature for transformative change to just and sustainable futures — Insights from the IPBES Values Assessment

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 64, P. 101359 - 101359

Published: Sept. 19, 2023

Language: Английский

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Are Stakeholders Aware of the Contributions of Ecosystem Services for Their Well-Being? A Case Study of a UNESCO Geopark Project in Brazil

Human Ecology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 14, 2025

Language: Английский

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Whose values count? A review of the nature valuation studies with a focus on justice

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 64, P. 101350 - 101350

Published: Sept. 19, 2023

The Values Assessment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services shows that multiple valuation methods approaches exist to assess diverse value types. evidence is based largest review academic studies nature date, developed for (IPBES). We evaluate according environmental justice criteria. results suggest although types indicators are assessed across studies, few individual plural, fail provide distributive score low procedural indicators. a set recommendations incorporating issues in design studies.

Language: Английский

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Incorporating diverse values of nature in decision-making—theory and practice

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 379(1903)

Published: April 21, 2024

Values play a significant role in decision-making, especially regarding nature. Decisions impact people and nature complex ways understanding which values are prioritised, left out is an important task for improving the equity effectiveness of decision-making. Based on work done IPBES Assessment, this paper develops framework to support analyses how decision-making influences as well whose get prioritised. The used analyse key areas environmental policy: a) present model protection market economies, b) valuation bringing into decisions, c) embedded policy instruments, exemplified by protected conservation payments ecosystem services. show that policies have been established mere additions structures foster economic expansion, undermines wide range nature's values. Moreover, themselves also focused limited set diverse This article part theme issue 'Bringing decision-making'.

Language: Английский

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The pitfalls of plural valuation

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 64, P. 101345 - 101345

Published: Sept. 19, 2023

This paper critically examines the current political context in which valuation studies of nature are undertaken. It challenges belief that somehow, more and technically better will drive societal change toward just sustainable futures. Instead, we argue proposed practices risk to continue overrepresent values those who hold power dominate space, perpetuate discrimination views nondominant stakeholders. In tackling this politically sensitive issue, define a typology valuations, making explicit roles discrimination. is done provide professionals other actors with simple framework determine if actions activities constructive, inclusive, resolve injustices enable systemic change, or rather entrench status quo aggravate existing injustices. The objective buttress their decisions support, accept, improve, oppose, reject such valuations.

Language: Английский

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Increasing uptake of ecosystem service assessments: best practice check-lists for practitioners in Europe

One Ecosystem, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 9

Published: June 14, 2024

Aiming at understanding the role of plural values in decision-making, IPBES Values Assessment defined nature valuation broadly as including biophysical, economic and socio-cultural assessments, ecosystem service assessment. reviews scientific literature revealed a lack documentation uptake by stakeholders across method types. The EU project SELINA aims to contribute increasing ES assessments different governance levels. This paper guidance national local applications compiling study design recommendations for from 111 documents on covering 12 European languages. Guidance are evaluated seven diagnostic topics suggested increase relevance robustness assessments: condition variables; capacity-potential; supply-demand; spatial scaling resolution capability; social health benefit compatibility; uncertainty develops these into set checklists practitioners contractors assessments. We find synergies between features gaps relation policy cycle. Checklists aimed projects self-assessing improving their implementation From knowledge supply perspective, this is expected likelihood results stakeholders. end with some cautions limitations perspectives demand political uses assessment knowledge.

Language: Английский

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Unveiling relational values in agroecosystems through participatory video in a tropical agroforest frontier

Agriculture and Human Values, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 2, 2024

Language: Английский

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