Welcoming different perspectives in IPBES: “Nature’s contributions to people” and “Ecosystem services”

INTRODUCTION A recent paper by Díaz et al. (2018a) presented “nature’s contributions to people,” a conceptual framework developed within the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). The authors wrote that it could nurture a paradigm shift from the concept of ecosystem services. The paper has sparked quick reactions including a critical editorial response in the journal Ecosystem Services (Braat 2018) and several Science eLetters responses. Díaz et al. (2018a) and the responses generally disagree on whether the paradigm shift suggested by the original contribution is justified and whether the nature’s contributions to people framework represents a scientific advance that is broadly useful in contexts other than IPBES.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Ecology and Society

• Publication date

  2018-03-19

• Fields of study

  Political Science, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.5751/ES-10134-230139
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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