Operationalising the Nature Futures framework

🌿 The ninth CreaTures and Friends seminar will take place on

June 29th, 2021, 12:00-13:00 CEST 🌿

In her talk Laura Pereira will present the latest work from the IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) task force on scenarios and models regarding the operationalisation of the Nature Futures Framework (NFF). The NFF is a heuristic in the shape of a triangle that captures diverse, positive values for human–nature relationships in a triangular space. They consider three main ways of valuing nature at each of the vertices (nature for nature, nature for society and nature as culture). The NFF builds on the three values of nature (intrinsic, instrumental and relational values, respectively) identified by the IPBES and repurposes it to make it actionable for the modelling and scenarios community. The NFF triangle illustrates how it is possible to emphasize a complex mixture of values for appreciating nature depending where in the triangle you are situated and thus allows for a plurality of perspectives to be held in different times, contexts and spaces. As such, the NFF approach and the triangle can be used both as a boundary object for continuously opening up more plural perspectives in the creation of nature scenarios and as an actionable framework for developing consistent scenarios and models across multiple scales and levels. She will explore in more depth the latter process and the set of guidelines that are in development for operationalizing the NFF for the development of a new generation of nature future scenarios and models.

Suggested Reading:

Pereira, LM,  Davies, KK,  den Belder, E, et al.  Developing multiscale and integrative nature–people scenarios using the Nature Futures Framework. People Nat.  2020; 2: 1172– 1195. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10146 
Laura Pereira, Jan J. Kuiper, Odirilwe Selomane, et al. (2021) Advancing a toolkit of diverse futures approaches for global environmental assessments, Ecosystems and People, 17:1, 191-204, DOI: 10.1080/26395916.2021.1901783

Participation is open to everyone but registration is required. To join, please fill in your details in the registration form and we will email you the link a day ahead of the seminar. 

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