TY - JOUR
T1 - The 2019 review of IPBES and future priorities
T2 - reaching beyond assessment to enhance policy impact
AU - Stevance, Anne Sophie
AU - Bridgewater, Peter
AU - Louafi, Selim
AU - King, Nicholas
AU - Beard, T. Douglas
AU - Van Jaarsveld, Albert S.
AU - Ofir, Zenda
AU - Kohsaka, Ryo
AU - Jenderedijan, Karen
AU - Rosales Benites, Marina
AU - Mulongoy, Kalemani Joseph
AU - Chaudhari, Kalpana Lalitkumar
AU - Painter, James
AU - Meter, Andrew
N1 - Funding Information:
The Panel appointed by the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel and the Bureau of IPBES was supported for meeting attendance for the purpose of the review work, conducted between June 2018 and May 2019. No other fees were afforded to members of the review panel. The International Science Council received funding from IPBES to cover travel and salary costs for the purpose of the review. This funding was mostly used to cover studies by consultants (media impact study and bibliometric study), and methodological support for the evaluation process.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - The Intergovernmental Science–Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is an independent scientific body focused on assessing the state of the world’s ecosystem services and biodiversity. IPBES members agreed in 2017 that a review of the Platform’s first work programme should be undertaken by an independent panel examining all aspects of IPBES’ work–including implementation of the four functions of IPBES; policies, operating principles and procedures; governance structure and arrangements; communication, stakeholder engagement and partnerships; and funding mechanisms. The review found that for IPBES to have its anticipated transformative impact: ● All four functions of IPBES (i.e. assessment, knowledge generation, policy support, capacity building), with better communication, must be significantly strengthened, integrated and delivered together; ● The policy aspects of IPBES work need to be strengthened and greater emphasis needs to be placed on the co-design and co-production of assessments; ● A more strategic and collaborative approach to stakeholders is needed; and ● IPBES must develop a more sustainable financial base. Given those changes, IPBES, as an embryonic boundary organization, can become the key influencing organization in the global landscape of biodiversity and ecosystem services organizations, helping thus to catalyze transformative change in the relationship between people and the rest of nature. EDITED BY Patricia Balvanera.
AB - The Intergovernmental Science–Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is an independent scientific body focused on assessing the state of the world’s ecosystem services and biodiversity. IPBES members agreed in 2017 that a review of the Platform’s first work programme should be undertaken by an independent panel examining all aspects of IPBES’ work–including implementation of the four functions of IPBES; policies, operating principles and procedures; governance structure and arrangements; communication, stakeholder engagement and partnerships; and funding mechanisms. The review found that for IPBES to have its anticipated transformative impact: ● All four functions of IPBES (i.e. assessment, knowledge generation, policy support, capacity building), with better communication, must be significantly strengthened, integrated and delivered together; ● The policy aspects of IPBES work need to be strengthened and greater emphasis needs to be placed on the co-design and co-production of assessments; ● A more strategic and collaborative approach to stakeholders is needed; and ● IPBES must develop a more sustainable financial base. Given those changes, IPBES, as an embryonic boundary organization, can become the key influencing organization in the global landscape of biodiversity and ecosystem services organizations, helping thus to catalyze transformative change in the relationship between people and the rest of nature. EDITED BY Patricia Balvanera.
KW - biodiversity
KW - boundary organization
KW - ecosystem services
KW - nature’s contributions to people
KW - policy
KW - science evaluation
KW - Science–policy interface
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85077072223&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/26395916.2019.1702590
DO - 10.1080/26395916.2019.1702590
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85077072223
SN - 2639-5908
VL - 16
SP - 70
EP - 77
JO - Ecosystems and People
JF - Ecosystems and People
IS - 1
ER -