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Chapter 1: Assessing a planet in transformation: Rationale and approach of the IPBES Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
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Brondizio, Eduardo; Díaz, Sandra Myrna; Settele, Josef; Ngo, Hien; Guèze, Maximilien; et al.; Chapter 1: Assessing a planet in transformation: Rationale and approach of the IPBES Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services; Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES; 2019; 1-48
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Autor
Brondizio, Eduardo
Díaz, Sandra Myrna
Settele, Josef
Ngo, Hien
Guèze, Maximilien
Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Y
Bai, Xuemei
Geschke, Arne
Molnár, Zsolt
Niamir, Aidin
Pascual, Unai
Simcock, Alan
Jaureguiberry, Pedro
Hien, Ngo,
Brancalion, Pedro
Chan, Kai M. A.
Dubertret, Fabrice
Hendry, Andrew
Liu, Jianguo
Martin, Adrian
Martín López, Berta
Midgley, Guy F.
Obura, David
Oliver, Tom
Scheffran, Jürgen
Seppelt, Ralf
Strassburg, Bernardo
Spangenberg, Joachim H.
Stenseke, Marie
Turnhout, Esther
Williams, Meryl J.
Zayas, Cynthia
Resumen
The challenges of mitigating and adapting to climate change, achieving inclusive food, water, energy and health security, addressing urban vulnerabilities, and the unequal burdens of nature deterioration, are not only predicaments on their own right. Because they interact, often exacerbating each other, they create new risks and uncertainties for people and nature. It is now evident that the rapid deterioration of nature, including that of the global environmental commons on land, ocean, atmosphere and biosphere, upon which humanity as a whole depends, are interconnected and their cascading effects compromise societal goals and aspirations from local to global levels. Growing efforts to respond to these challenges and awareness of our dependence on nature have opened new opportunities for action and collaboration towards fairer and more sustainable futures.The global assessment on biodiversity and ecosystem services (GA) has been designed to be a comprehensive and ambitious intergovernmental integrated assessment of recent anthropogenic transformations of Earth?s living systems, the roots of such transformations, and their implications to society. In the chapters that follow, our mandate is to critically assess the state of knowledge on recent past (from the 1970s), present and possible future trends in multi-scale interactions between people and nature, taking into consideration different worldviews and knowledge systems, including those representing mainstream natural and social sciences and the humanities, and indigenous and local knowledge systems. In doing so, the GA also assesses where the world stands in relation to several international agreements related to biodiversity and sustainable development.