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Pascual U, Balvanera P, Anderson CB, Chaplin-Kramer R, Christie M, González-Jiménez D, Martin A, Raymond CM, Termansen M, Vatn A, Athayde S, Baptiste B, Barton DN, Jacobs S, Kelemen E, Kumar R, Lazos E, Mwampamba TH, Nakangu B, O'Farrell P, Subramanian SM, van Noordwijk M, Ahn S, Amaruzaman S, Amin AM, Arias-Arévalo P, Arroyo-Robles G, Cantú-Fernández M, Castro AJ, Contreras V, De Vos A, Dendoncker N, Engel S, Eser U, Faith DP, Filyushkina A, Ghazi H, Gómez-Baggethun E, Gould RK, Guibrunet L, Gundimeda H, Hahn T, Harmáčková ZV, Hernández-Blanco M, Horcea-Milcu AI, Huambachano M, Wicher NLH, Aydın Cİ, Islar M, Koessler AK, Kenter JO, Kosmus M, Lee H, Leimona B, Lele S, Lenzi D, Lliso B, Mannetti LM, Merçon J, Monroy-Sais AS, Mukherjee N, Muraca B, Muradian R, Murali R, Nelson SH, Nemogá-Soto GR, Ngouhouo-Poufoun J, Niamir A, Nuesiri E, Nyumba TO, Özkaynak B, Palomo I, Pandit R, Pawłowska-Mainville A, Porter-Bolland L, Quaas M, Rode J, Rozzi R, Sachdeva S, Samakov A, Schaafsma M, Sitas N, Ungar P, Yiu E, Yoshida Y, Zent E. Diverse values of nature for sustainability. Nature 2023; 620:813-823. [PMID: 37558877 PMCID: PMC10447232 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06406-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2022] [Accepted: 07/05/2023] [Indexed: 08/11/2023]
Abstract
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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Affiliation(s)
- Unai Pascual
- Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Scientific Campus of the University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain.
- Ikerbasque Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain.
- Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Morelia, México
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- Instituto de Ciencias Polares, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Tierra del Fuego (ICPA-UNTDF), Ushuaia, Argentina
- Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CADIC-CONICET), Ushuaia, Argentina
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- Global Science, WWF, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA
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- Aberystwyth Business School, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Morelia, México
- Global Resilience Partnership, Cape Town, South Africa
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- School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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- Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Ecosystems and Environment Research Program, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Economics and Management, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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- Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies and Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Oslo, Norway
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- Research Institute for Nature and Forest INBO, Brussels, Belgium
- Belgian Biodiversity Platform, Brussels, Belgium
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- Wetlands International South Asia, New Delhi, India
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, México
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Morelia, México
- Department of Ecosystems and Conservation, College of Forestry, Wildlife and Tourism, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania
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- World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Culemborg, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
- Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources, UNU-FLORES, United Nations University, Dresden, Germany
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- Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan
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- International Centre for Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF), Bogor, Indonesia
- Plant Production Systems, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Agroforestry Research Group, Brawijaya University, Malang, Indonesia
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- Korea Environment Institute, Sejong, Republic of Korea
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- International Centre for Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF), Bogor, Indonesia
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- Université Felix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
- Centre Suisse de Recherche Scientifique, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
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- Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Económicas, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Morelia, México
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Morelia, México
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- Departamento de Biología y Geología, Centro Andaluz de Evaluación y Seguimiento del Cambio Global (CAESCG), Universidad de Almería, Almería, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Morelia, México
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- Department of Environmental Science, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Centre for Sustainability Transitions, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Department of Geography, Institute of Life Earth and Environment, University of Namur, Namur, Belgium
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- School of Business Administration and Economics & Institute for Environmental Systems Research, Osnabrück University, Osnabrück, Germany
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- Office for Environmental Ethics, Tübingen, Germany
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- Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
- Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Oslo, Norway
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- Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Institute of Geography, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, México
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- Department of Economics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
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- Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Kassel Institute for Sustainability, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
- Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
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- Center for Global Indigenous Cultures and Environmental Justice Center, Syracuse University, New York, NY, USA
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Center for Sustainability Studies, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Geography, Institute of Life Earth and Environment, University of Namur, Namur, Belgium
- Institute of Environmental Planning, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany
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- Aberystwyth Business School, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK
- Ecologos Research Ltd, Aberystwyth, UK
- Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, UK
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- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GIZ, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, Konkuk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
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- International Centre for Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF), Bogor, Indonesia
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- Centre for Environment & Development, ATREE, Bengaluru, India
- Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Pune, India
- Shiv Nadar University, Delhi, India
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- Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
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- Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Scientific Campus of the University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain
- World Benchmarking Alliance, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Educación, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, México
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- Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Morelia, México
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- Division of Anthropology, Geography and Development, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Brunel University, London, UK
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- Department of Philosophy and Environmental Studies Program, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
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- Faculdade de Economia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil
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- The Snow Leopard Trust, Seattle, WA, USA
- Geography Department, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Centre for Climate Justice, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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- International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nkolbisson Yaoundé, Cameroon
- Congo Basin Institute (CBI), Nkolbisson Yaoundé, Cameroon
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- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Institute, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, UK
- African Conservation Centre, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Department of Economics, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- University of Grenoble Alpes, IRD, CNRS, INRAE, Grenoble, France
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- Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy, School of Agriculture and Environment, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Global Center for Food, Land and Water Resources, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Global and International Studies, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
- Nicholaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany
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- Cape Horn International Center (CHIC), Universidad de Magallanes, Santiago, Chile
- Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
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- Northern Research Station, US Forest Service, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Aigine Cultural Research Center, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
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- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
- School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Centre for Sustainability Transitions, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC, Tokyo, Japan
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- National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Laboratorio Ecología Humana, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Altos de Pipe, Venezuela
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Wyborn C, Montana J, Kalas N, Clement S, Davila F, Knowles N, Louder E, Balan M, Chambers J, Christel L, Forsyth T, Henderson G, Izquierdo Tort S, Lim M, Martinez-Harms MJ, Merçon J, Nuesiri E, Pereira L, Pilbeam V, Turnhout E, Wood S, Ryan M. An agenda for research and action toward diverse and just futures for life on Earth. Conserv Biol 2021; 35:1086-1097. [PMID: 33244774 DOI: 10.13140/rg.2.2.12086.52804/2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2020] [Revised: 10/14/2020] [Accepted: 11/20/2020] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
Abstract
Decades of research and policy interventions on biodiversity have insufficiently addressed the dual issues of biodiversity degradation and social justice. New approaches are therefore needed. We devised a research and action agenda that calls for a collective task of revisiting biodiversity toward the goal of sustaining diverse and just futures for life on Earth. Revisiting biodiversity involves critically reflecting on past and present research, policy, and practice concerning biodiversity to inspire creative thinking about the future. The agenda was developed through a 2-year dialogue process that involved close to 300 experts from diverse disciplines and locations. This process was informed by social science insights that show biodiversity research and action is underpinned by choices about how problems are conceptualized. Recognizing knowledge, action, and ethics as inseparable, we synthesized a set of principles that help navigate the task of revisiting biodiversity. The agenda articulates 4 thematic areas for future research. First, researchers need to revisit biodiversity narratives by challenging conceptualizations that exclude diversity and entrench the separation of humans, cultures, economies, and societies from nature. Second, researchers should focus on the relationships between the Anthropocene, biodiversity, and culture by considering humanity and biodiversity as tied together in specific contexts. Third, researchers should focus on nature and economies by better accounting for the interacting structures of economic and financial systems as core drivers of biodiversity loss. Finally, researchers should enable transformative biodiversity research and action by reconfiguring relationships between human and nonhuman communities in and through science, policy, and practice. Revisiting biodiversity necessitates a renewed focus on dialogue among biodiversity communities and beyond that critically reflects on the past to channel research and action toward fostering just and diverse futures for human and nonhuman life on Earth.
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- C Wyborn
- Luc Hoffmann Institute, IUCN Conservation Centre, Rue Mauverney 28, Gland, 1196, Switzerland
- Institute for Water Futures, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia
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- School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY, U.K
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- Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Universitätstrasse 8-22, Zürich, 8092, Switzerland
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- Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX, U.K
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- Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, 253 Jones Street, Ultimo, NSW, 2007, Australia
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- Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave W, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada
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- School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona, ENR2 Building, South 4th floor 1064 E. Lowell Street, Tucson, AZ, 85721, U.S.A
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- The Forest Way, No 8, 2nd St, D P Nagar, Kotturpuram, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600085, India
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- Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, Wageningen, 6700 AA, The Netherlands
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- School of Politics and Government (EPyG), National University of San Martin, Avenida 25 de Mayo 1021, San Martín, Provincia de Buenos Aires, 1650, Argentina
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- Department of International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, U.K
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- Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin, P.O. Drawer 7219, 300 W 21st Street, Austin, TX, 78712, U.S.A
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- Institut des Sciences de la Forêt Tempérée, Université du Québec en Outaouais, 58 rue Principale, Ripon, QC, J0V 1V0, Canada
- Natura y Ecosistemas Mexicanos A.C., Plaza San Jacinto 23D, San Ángel, Álvaro Obregón, Mexico City, 01000, Mexico
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- Centre for Environmental Law, Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University, 6 First Walk, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia
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- Center for Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Avd. Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins 340, Santiago, Chile
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Educasión, Universidad Veracruzana, Paseo 112, Nuevo Jalapa, Xalapa-Enríquez, 91193, Mexico
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- Social Science Faculty, African Leadership University (ALU), Powder Mill Road, Pamplemousses, 21001, Mauritius
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- Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Kräftriket 2B, Stockholm, SE-10691, Sweden
- Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Princetonlaan 8a, Utrecht, 3584 CB, The Netherlands
- Centre for Complex Systems in Transition, Stellenbosch University, 19 Jonkershoek Rd, Mostertsdrift, Stellenbosch, 7600, South Africa
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- Clear Horizon Consulting, 132B Gwynne St, Cremorne, VIC, 3121, Australia
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- Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, Wageningen, 6700 AA, The Netherlands
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- Future Earth, 1250 Guy St, Montreal, Quebec, ON, H3H 2L3, Canada
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- Luc Hoffmann Institute, IUCN Conservation Centre, Rue Mauverney 28, Gland, 1196, Switzerland
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