Kenter, Jasper O. orcid.org/0000-0002-3612-086X (2018) IPBES:Don't throw out the baby whilst keeping the bathwater : Put people's values central, not nature's contributions. Ecosystem Services. pp. 40-43. ISSN 2212-0416
Abstract
IPBES has replaced the term ‘ecosystem services’ with ‘nature's contributions to people’. This make-over does little to address the semantic problems associated with ecosystem services. The ‘new’ term still characterises the relation between nature and people as one-way and the value of nature as instrumental (as a provider of benefits), masking human agency and broader values. By replacing ecosystem services with a near-synonymous term, IPBES ditches the baby (the successful term ecosystem services), whilst keeping the dirty bathwater (the problems with the term). This distracts from the otherwise much-improved comprehensiveness of its valuation framework in terms of pluralism. To be genuinely inclusive, IPBES should use an altogether different headline terminology that centres around people's values and makes objects of value such as ecosystem services subsidiary. This allows diverse conceptions of human-nature relating and plural values of nature to genuinely stand on a par, whilst not ditching the baby. In the end, we can only integrate values in environmental governance, not services or contributions — ultimately it is the societal importance ascribed to nature that matters.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 The Author |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Environment and Geography (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 04 Oct 2018 11:40 |
Last Modified: | 05 Dec 2024 00:18 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.08.002 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.08.002 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:136693 |
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