Ecosystem Services

Exploring the usefulness of scenario archetypes in science policy processes, experience across IPBES assessments

Scenario analyses have been used in multiple science policy assessments to better understand complex plausible futures. Scenario archetype approaches are based on the fact that many future scenarios have similar underlying storylines, assumptions, …

Chapter 5 Current and future interactions between nature and society. In IPBES (2018) The IPBES regional assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services for the Americas.

The region’s rich biodiversity and its benefits to people provide essential contributions to the economy, livelihoods, the quality of life and the eradication of poverty. The region is also bioculturally diverse, with traditional knowledge of …