There are calls for social innovation to help with the effort to halt biodiversity loss. However, research on social innovation and biodiversity is dispersed and covers a multitude of disciplines. A systematic overview of research on social innovation and biodiversity is missing and this paper contributes by focusing on social innovation to tackle the drivers of biodiversity loss and unsustainability. The paper reviews research on social innovation in changing land use (agriculture, forestry, aquatic ecosystems and cities), in tackling exploitation of organisms (fishing, hunting, harvesting), and in addressing threats of climate change, pollution and invasive species. Across these drivers, we find a) a strong emphasis on social innovation as civic action for changing practices in addressing unsustainability, b) that social innovation research tends to focus on local experimentation although there are bodies of literature on policy-driven innovations and consumer/producer-driven innovations, and c) that there is very little research taking a critical perspective to explore negative or unintended consequences of social innovation. Drawing on the review, we propose three cross cutting issues that can be a focus for future research, practice and supportive policy: social innovation for nature-based solutions, social innovation for participatory governance, and social innovation for technology that tackles biodiversity loss.

有人呼吁社会创新来帮助阻止生物多样性丧失。然而，关于社会创新和生物多样性的研究是分散的，涵盖了众多学科。缺少对社会创新和生物多样性研究的系统概述，本文通过关注社会创新来解决生物多样性丧失和不可持续性的驱动因素。该论文回顾了在改变土地利用（农业、林业、水生生态系统和城市）、解决生物体开发（捕鱼、狩猎、收获）以及应对气候变化、污染和入侵物种威胁方面的社会创新研究。在这些驱动因素中，我们发现 a) 高度重视社会创新作为改变做法以解决不可持续性问题的公民行动，b) 尽管有大量关于政策驱动型创新和消费者/生产者驱动型创新的文献，但社会创新研究往往侧重于本地实验，并且 c) 很少有研究采用批判性视角来探索负面或意外后果社会创新。根据审查结果，我们提出了三个可以成为未来研究、实践和支持政策重点的跨领域问题：基于自然的解决方案的社会创新、参与式治理的社会创新以及解决生物多样性丧失的技术的社会创新。c) 很少有研究从批判的角度来探索社会创新的负面或意外后果。根据审查结果，我们提出了三个可以成为未来研究、实践和支持政策重点的跨领域问题：基于自然的解决方案的社会创新、参与式治理的社会创新以及解决生物多样性丧失的技术的社会创新。c) 很少有研究从批判的角度来探索社会创新的负面或意外后果。根据审查结果，我们提出了三个可以成为未来研究、实践和支持政策重点的跨领域问题：基于自然的解决方案的社会创新、参与式治理的社会创新以及解决生物多样性丧失的技术的社会创新。