The IPBES Conceptual Framework — connecting nature and people

The first public product of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is its Conceptual Framework. This conceptual and analytical tool, presented here in detail, will underpin all IPBES functions and provide structure and comparability to the syntheses that IPBES will produce at different spatial scales, on different themes, and in different regions. Salient innovative aspects of the IPBES Conceptual Framework are its transparent and participatory construction process and its explicit consideration of diverse scientific disciplines, stakeholders, and knowledge systems, including indigenous and local knowledge. Because the focus on co-construction of integrative knowledge is…

• NS
  National Science Foundation
• UN
  Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
• CN
  Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
• AA
  Addis Ababa University
• II
  Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research
• FP
  Fondo para la Investigación Científica y Tecnológica