Diverse values of nature for sustainability
Twenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystem services for human well-being1,2, addressing the global biodiversity crisis3 still implies confronting barriers to incorporating nature’s diverse values into decision-making. These barriers include powerful interests supported by current norms and legal rules such as property rights, which determine whose values and which values of nature are acted on. A better understanding of how and why nature is (under)valued is more urgent than ever4. Notwithstanding agreements to incorporate nature’s values into actions, including the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)5 and the UN Sustainable Development Goals6, predominant environmental and development policies still prioritize a subset of values, particularly those linked to markets, and ignore other ways people relate to and benefit from nature7. Arguably, a ‘values crisis’ underpins the intertwined crises of biodiversity loss and climate change8, pandemic emergence9 and socio-environmental injustices10. On the basis of more than 50,000 scientific publications, policy documents and Indigenous and local knowledge sources, the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) assessed knowledge on nature’s diverse values and valuation methods to gain insights into their role in policymaking and fuller integration into decisions7,11. Applying this evidence, combinations of values-centred approaches are proposed to improve valuation and address barriers to uptake, ultimately leveraging transformative changes towards more just (that is, fair treatment of people and nature, including inter- and intragenerational equity) and sustainable futures.
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People and Nature
29 publications, 6.58%
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Ecosystems and People
19 publications, 4.31%
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Ecosystem Services
18 publications, 4.08%
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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
16 publications, 3.63%
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Sustainability Science
16 publications, 3.63%
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Ambio
10 publications, 2.27%
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Environmental Science and Policy
10 publications, 2.27%
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Conservation Biology
10 publications, 2.27%
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Ecological Economics
10 publications, 2.27%
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Sustainability
8 publications, 1.81%
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Biological Conservation
8 publications, 1.81%
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Land
7 publications, 1.59%
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Trends in Ecology and Evolution
6 publications, 1.36%
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Journal of Environmental Management
6 publications, 1.36%
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Nature
5 publications, 1.13%
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One Earth
5 publications, 1.13%
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npj Urban Sustainability
5 publications, 1.13%
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Conservation Science and Practice
4 publications, 0.91%
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
4 publications, 0.91%
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Regional Environmental Change
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Frontiers in Environmental Science
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Restoration Ecology
4 publications, 0.91%
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Global Environmental Change
3 publications, 0.68%
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Conservation Letters
3 publications, 0.68%
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SSRN Electronic Journal
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PLOS Sustainability and Transformation
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Trees Forests and People
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Urban Forestry and Urban Greening
3 publications, 0.68%
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Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism
3 publications, 0.68%
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Elsevier
151 publications, 34.24%
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Springer Nature
80 publications, 18.14%
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Wiley
75 publications, 17.01%
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Taylor & Francis
40 publications, 9.07%
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MDPI
29 publications, 6.58%
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Frontiers Media S.A.
15 publications, 3.4%
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SAGE
9 publications, 2.04%
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
5 publications, 1.13%
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
5 publications, 1.13%
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Pensoft Publishers
4 publications, 0.91%
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The Royal Society
4 publications, 0.91%
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Cambridge University Press
3 publications, 0.68%
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IOP Publishing
3 publications, 0.68%
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
3 publications, 0.68%
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Oxford University Press
3 publications, 0.68%
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
2 publications, 0.45%
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Social Science Electronic Publishing
1 publication, 0.23%
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Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS
1 publication, 0.23%
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American Chemical Society (ACS)
1 publication, 0.23%
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EDP Sciences
1 publication, 0.23%
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Mary Ann Liebert
1 publication, 0.23%
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IWA Publishing
1 publication, 0.23%
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National Inquiry Services Center (NISC)
1 publication, 0.23%
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Copernicus
1 publication, 0.23%
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Annual Reviews
1 publication, 0.23%
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American Geophysical Union
1 publication, 0.23%
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- We do not take into account publications without a DOI.
- Statistics recalculated weekly.