Status and trends in global ecosystem services and natural capital: assessing progress towards Aichi Biodiversity Target 14
The Convention on Biological Diversity uses six indicators to assess progress towards Aichi Biodiversity Target 14 (ecosystem services), leaving many elements of the target untracked. We identify 13 ecosystem services as directly essential for human well-being, and select a set of 21 datasets as ind...
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| author | Shepherd, E Milner-Gulland, E Knight, A Ling, M Darrah, S van Soesbergen, A Burgess, N |
| author_facet | Shepherd, E Milner-Gulland, E Knight, A Ling, M Darrah, S van Soesbergen, A Burgess, N |
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| description | The Convention on Biological Diversity uses six indicators to assess progress towards Aichi Biodiversity Target 14 (ecosystem services), leaving many elements of the target untracked. We identify 13 ecosystem services as directly essential for human well-being, and select a set of 21 datasets as indicators of the state of natural capital underpinning those services, the benefits derived from them, and distribution of access to those benefits. Analysis of these indicators supports previous conclusions that there is no overall progress towards Target 14. 60% of our ‘benefit’ indicators have positive trends, whereas 86% of our ‘state’ indicators show a decline in natural capital. This suggests that well-being is increasing in the near-term despite environmental degradation, and that unsustainable use of natural capital may fuel human development. As regulating services such as ‘soil fertility’ continue to decline, however, it seems unlikely that this trend can continue without future negative impacts on humanity. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:a79ef539-2194-456d-be9d-8a45bc06f5a72022-03-27T02:55:52ZStatus and trends in global ecosystem services and natural capital: assessing progress towards Aichi Biodiversity Target 14Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:a79ef539-2194-456d-be9d-8a45bc06f5a7Symplectic Elements at OxfordWiley2016Shepherd, EMilner-Gulland, EKnight, ALing, MDarrah, Svan Soesbergen, ABurgess, NThe Convention on Biological Diversity uses six indicators to assess progress towards Aichi Biodiversity Target 14 (ecosystem services), leaving many elements of the target untracked. We identify 13 ecosystem services as directly essential for human well-being, and select a set of 21 datasets as indicators of the state of natural capital underpinning those services, the benefits derived from them, and distribution of access to those benefits. Analysis of these indicators supports previous conclusions that there is no overall progress towards Target 14. 60% of our ‘benefit’ indicators have positive trends, whereas 86% of our ‘state’ indicators show a decline in natural capital. This suggests that well-being is increasing in the near-term despite environmental degradation, and that unsustainable use of natural capital may fuel human development. As regulating services such as ‘soil fertility’ continue to decline, however, it seems unlikely that this trend can continue without future negative impacts on humanity. |
| spellingShingle | Shepherd, E Milner-Gulland, E Knight, A Ling, M Darrah, S van Soesbergen, A Burgess, N Status and trends in global ecosystem services and natural capital: assessing progress towards Aichi Biodiversity Target 14 |
| title | Status and trends in global ecosystem services and natural capital: assessing progress towards Aichi Biodiversity Target 14 |
| title_full | Status and trends in global ecosystem services and natural capital: assessing progress towards Aichi Biodiversity Target 14 |
| title_fullStr | Status and trends in global ecosystem services and natural capital: assessing progress towards Aichi Biodiversity Target 14 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Status and trends in global ecosystem services and natural capital: assessing progress towards Aichi Biodiversity Target 14 |
| title_short | Status and trends in global ecosystem services and natural capital: assessing progress towards Aichi Biodiversity Target 14 |
| title_sort | status and trends in global ecosystem services and natural capital assessing progress towards aichi biodiversity target 14 |
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