Assessing nature's contributions to people

Dı́az, Sandra; Pascual, Unai; Stenseke, Marie; Martín‐López, Berta; Watson, Robert; Molnár, Zsolt; Hill, Rosemary; Chan, Kai M. A.; Baste, Ivar; Brauman, Kate A.; Polasky, Stephen; Church, Andrew; Lonsdale, Mark; Larigauderie, Anne; Leadley, Paul; Oudenhoven, A.P.E. van; Plaat, Felice van der; Schröter, Matthias; Lavorel, Sandra; Aumeeruddy‐Thomas, Yildiz; Bukvareva, Elena; Davies, Kirsten; Demissew, Sebsebe; Erpul, Günay; Failler, Pierre; Guerra, Carlos A.; Hewitt, Chad L.; Keune, Hans; Lindley, Sarah; Shirayama, Yoshihisa

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“…From this point of view, NCP is certainly a welcome alternative, especially if it aims to enhance ES approaches by constituencies, stakeholders or countries for which the term ecosystem services invokes too many connotations with "western science" (cf. Díaz et al 2018). …”

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“…In a policy forum article recently published in Science Magazine by Díaz et al 2018, nature's contributions to people (NCP) have been introduced as the contributions, both positive and negative, of living nature (diversity of organisms, ecosystems and their associated ecological and evolutionary processes) to people's quality of life. This definition, but also the proposed classification of NCP, is based on the definition and main categories of ecosystem services (ES).…”

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AbstractA recent policy forum article in Science by Díaz et al (2018) introduces nature's contributions to people (NCP) as an innovative approach to inform policy and decisionmaking. According to the authors, the NCP concept extends beyond the notion of ecosystem services by incorporating a more inclusive and interdisciplinary approach.

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Ecosystem services are inclusive and deliver multiple values. A comment on the concept of nature's contributions to people

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Geneletti²

2018

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A recent policy forum article in Science by Díaz et al. (2018) introduces nature's contributions to people (NCP) as an innovative approach to inform policy and decisionmaking. According to the authors, the NCP concept extends beyond the notion of ecosystem services by incorporating a more inclusive and interdisciplinary approach. Here this claim is challenged. Based on our experiences in Europe, we argue that the science, policy and practice of ecosystem services have progressed much beyond a mere economic and ecological rationale.

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Ecosystem services are inclusive and deliver multiple values. A comment on the concept of nature's contributions to people

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2018

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“…Ongoing efforts, e.g. by the IPBES, to make ES indicators more relevant to policy and planning (Díaz et al 2018) may spur important progress. In particular, we recommend that new urban plans should include indicators that allow to assess and quantify the soil quality and the multitude of benefits provided by urban soils.…”

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Incorporating soil ecosystem services into urban planning: status, challenges and opportunities

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Context Traditionally soils have not received much attention in urban planning. For this, tools are needed that can both be understood both by soil scientists and urban planners. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to enhance the role of soil knowledge in urban planning practice, through the following objectives: (1) identifying the role soil plays in recent urban plans; (2) analysing the ecosystem services and indicators used in soil science in an urban context; and (3) inferring the main challenges and opportunities to integrate soil into urban planning. Methods Seven urban plans and reports of world cities that include sustainability goals were analysed using text-mining and qualitative analysis, with a critical view on the inclusion of soil-related concepts. Secondly, the contribution of soil science to urban planning was assessed with an overview of case studies in the past decade that focus on soil-related ecosystem services in urban context. Results The results show an overall weak attention to soil and soil-related ecosystem services in the implementation and monitoring phases of urban plans. The majority of soil science case studies uses a haphazard approach to measure ecosystem service indicators which may not capture the ecosystem services appropriately and hence lack relevance for urban planning. Conclusions Even though the most urban plans assessed recognize soil as a key resource, most of them fail to integrate indicators to measure or monitor soil-related functions. There is a need to develop soilrelated ecosystem services that can be easily integrated and understood by other fields.

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“…Yet, to be useful in decision-making, the scientific knowledge developed around the ecosystem services concept and its frameworks needs to be operationalised and taken up by policy-makers and practitioners (Primmer and Furman 2012). To help overcoming this critical challenge, IPBES, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services was established in 2012 by national governments to set an interface between scientists, policy-makers and practitioners, and help setting the foundations for the incorporation of ecosystem services science into policy formulation (Díaz et al 2015(Díaz et al , 2018.…”

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Operationalising marine and coastal ecosystem services

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Villasante

Drakou

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International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Servic

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Assessing nature's contributions to people

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Cited by 1,765 publications

References 23 publications

Ecosystem services are inclusive and deliver multiple values. A comment on the concept of nature's contributions to people

Ecosystem services are inclusive and deliver multiple values. A comment on the concept of nature's contributions to people

Incorporating soil ecosystem services into urban planning: status, challenges and opportunities

Operationalising marine and coastal ecosystem services

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