Recognizing culture, and diverse sources of knowledge, can improve assessments A major challenge today and into the future is to maintain or enhance beneficial contributions of nature to a good quality of life for all people. This is among the key motivations of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), a joint global effort by governments, academia, and civil society to assess and promote knowledge of Earth's biodiversity and ecosystems and their contribution to human societies in order to inform policy formulation. One of the more recent key elements of the IPBES conceptual framework (1) is the notion of nature's contributions to people (NCP), which builds on the ecosystem service concept popularized by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) (2). But as we detail below, NCP as defined and put into practice in IPBES differs from earlier work in several important ways. First, the NCP approach recognizes the central and pervasive role that culture plays in defining all links between people and nature. Second, use of NCP elevates, emphasizes, and operationalizes the role of indigenous and local knowledge in understanding nature's contribution to people.

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评估自然对人类的贡献

认识文化和不同的知识来源可以改进评估 今天和未来的一个主要挑战是保持或加强自然对所有人的良好生活质量的有益贡献。这是生物多样性和生态系统服务政府间科学政策平台 (IPBES) 的主要动机之一，该平台是各国政府、学术界和民间社会共同开展的一项全球努力，旨在评估和促进有关地球生物多样性和生态系统及其对人类社会贡献的知识以便为政策制定提供信息。IPBES 概念框架 (1) 的最新关键要素之一是自然对人类的贡献 (NCP) 的概念，它建立在由千年生态系统评估 (MA) (2) 推广的生态系统服务概念之上。但正如我们在下面详述的那样，IPBES 中定义和实施的 NCP 在几个重要方面不同于早期的工作。首先，NCP 方法认识到文化在定义人与自然之间的所有联系方面所发挥的核心和普遍作用。其次，NCP 的使用提升、强调并实施了土著和地方知识在理解自然对人类的贡献方面的作用。