1. Assessing nature’s contributions to people: Recognizing culture, and diverse sources of knowledge, can improve assessments.
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Díaz, Sandra, Pascual, Unai, Stenseke, Marie, Martín-López, Berta, Watson, Robert T., Molnár, Zsolt, Hill, Rosemary, Chan, Kai M. A., Baste, Ivar A., Brauman, Kate A., Polasky, Stephen, Church, Andrew, Lonsdale, Mark, Larigauderie, Anne, Leadley, Paul W., van Oudenhoven, Alexander P. E., van der Plaat, Felice, Schröter, Matthias, Lavorel, Sandra, and Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Yildiz
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BIODIVERSITY , *ECOSYSTEM management , *ECOSYSTEM services , *NATURAL resources , *EFFECT of environment on human beings , *ENVIRONMENTAL protection - Abstract
The article focuses on the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), a joint global effort by governments, academia, and civil society, which aims to assess and promote the Earth's biodiversity and ecosystems, particularly the nature's contributions to people (NCP). Topics include the beneficial contributions of the NCP, the relationship between nature and humans, and the NCP categories within the generalizing and context-specific perspectives.
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- 2018
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