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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为地球上生命的多样化和公正未来的研究和行动议程

数十年的生物多样性研究和政策干预未能充分解决生物多样性退化和社会正义的双重问题。因此需要新的方法。我们制定了一项研究和行动议程，呼吁开展一项集体任务，即重新审视生物多样性，以实现维持地球上生命多样化和公正未来的目标。重新审视生物多样性涉及批判性地反思过去和现在有关生物多样性的研究、政策和实践，以激发对未来的创造性思考。该议程是通过为期 2 年的对话过程制定的，该过程涉及来自不同学科和地点的近 300 名专家。这一过程受到社会科学见解的启发，这些见解表明生物多样性研究和行动的基础是关于如何概念化问题的选择。认识知识，行动与道德密不可分，我们综合了一套原则，帮助驾驭重新审视生物多样性的任务。该议程阐明了未来研究的 4 个主题领域。首先，研究人员需要通过挑战排除多样性并巩固人类、文化、经济和社会与自然分离的概念化来重新审视生物多样性的叙述。其次，研究人员应该通过将人类和生物多样性在特定背景下联系在一起来关注人类世、生物多样性和文化之间的关系。第三，研究人员应该通过更好地将经济和金融系统的相互作用结构作为生物多样性丧失的核心驱动因素来关注自然和经济。最后，研究人员应该通过在科学、政策和实践中并通过科学、政策和实践重新配置人类和非人类社区之间的关系，实现变革性的生物多样性研究和行动。重新审视生物多样性需要重新关注生物多样性社区之间的对话，以及对过去进行批判性反思的对话，以引导研究和行动，为地球上的人类和非人类生命创造公正和多样化的未来。