Synthesizing plausible futures for biodiversity and ecosystem services in europe and central asia using scenario archetypes
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Harrison, Paula A.; Harmáčková, Zuzana V.; Karabulut, Armağan Aloe; Brotons, Lluis; Cantele, Matthew; Claudet, Joachim; Dunford, Robert W.; Guisan, Antoine; Holman, Ian P.; Jacobs, Sander; Kok, Kasper; Lobanova, Anastasia; Morán-Ordóñez, Alejandra; Pedde, Simona; Rixen, Christian; Santos-Martín, Fernando; Schlaepfer, Martin A.; Solidoro, Cosimo; Sonrel, Anthony; Hauck, JenniferEntity
UAM. Departamento de EcologíaPublisher
Resilience Alliance PublicationsDate
2019-07-01Citation
10.5751/ES-10818-240227
Ecology and Society 24.2 (2019): 27
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1708-3087DOI
10.5751/ES-10818-240227Funded by
The authors are grateful to the IPBES Europe and Central Asia Expert Group and Technical Support Unit for all their input support, and collaboration over the past three years. Paula Harrison and Ian Holman acknowledge financial support from the UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the EUfunded IMPRESSIONS project (Grant Agreement 603416). Martin Schlaepfer received support from ENVIROSPACE, University of Geneva. Antoine Guisan acknowledges additional funding from the University of Lausanne to support Anthony Sonrel's contribution to the assessmentEditor's Version
https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10818-240227Subjects
Biodiversity; Drivers; Ecosystem services; Exploratory scenarios; Impacts; IPBES; Models; Nature; Nature’s contributions to people (NCP); Biología y Biomedicina / BiologíaRights
© 2019 by the author(s)Abstract
Scenarios are a useful tool to explore possible futures of social-ecological systems. The number of scenarios has increased dramatically over recent decades, with a large diversity in temporal and spatial scales, purposes, themes, development methods, and content. Scenario archetypes generically describe future developments and can be useful in meaningfully classifying scenarios, structuring and summarizing the overwhelming amount of information, and enabling scientific outputs to more effectively interface with decision-making frameworks. The Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) faced this challenge and used scenario archetypes in its assessment of future interactions between nature and society. We describe the use of scenario archetypes in the IPBES Regional Assessment of Europe and Central Asia. Six scenario archetypes for the region are described in terms of their driver assumptions and impacts on nature (including biodiversity) and its contributions to people (including ecosystem services): Business-as-usual, economic optimism, regional competition, regional sustainability, global sustainable development, and inequality. The analysis shows that trade-offs between nature’s contributions to people are projected under different scenario archetypes. However, the means of resolving these trade-offs depend on differing political and societal value judgements within each scenario archetype. Scenarios that include proactive decision making on environmental issues, environmental management approaches that support multifunctionality, and mainstreaming environmental issues across sectors, are generally more successful in mitigating tradeoffs than isolated environmental policies. Furthermore, those scenario archetypes that focus on achieving a balanced supply of nature’s contributions to people and that incorporate a diversity of values are estimated to achieve more policy goals and targets, such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Convention on Biological Diversity Aichi targets. The scenario archetypes approach is shown to be helpful in supporting science-policy dialogue for proactive decision making that anticipates change, mitigates undesirable trade-offs, and fosters societal transformation in pursuit of sustainable development
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Google Scholar:Harrison, Paula A.
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Harmáčková, Zuzana V.
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Karabulut, Armağan Aloe
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Brotons, Lluis
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Cantele, Matthew
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Claudet, Joachim
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Dunford, Robert W.
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Guisan, Antoine
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Holman, Ian P.
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Jacobs, Sander
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Kok, Kasper
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Lobanova, Anastasia
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Morán-Ordóñez, Alejandra
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Pedde, Simona
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Rixen, Christian
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Santos-Martín, Fernando
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Schlaepfer, Martin A.
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Solidoro, Cosimo
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Sonrel, Anthony
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Hauck, Jennifer
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