Nature Correspondence: ‘Biodiversity: ideas need time to mature’

Published today, my Nature correspondence calls for continued dialogue on the values of nature in the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. It argues that debates over the representation of values are a productive (and likely inevitable) part of responding to environmental change. They promote dialogue and innovate new ideas. But seeking rapid consensus can…
Journal Article: Engaging diverse experts in global environmental assessment
Finding agreement in transdisciplinary knowledge production can be a challenge, however by focusing on agreement around commonalities and points of difference, experts in IPBES have developed an approach that accommodates both diversity and consensus.
Journal Article: Diversity and Consensus in IPBES
Finding agreement in transdisciplinary knowledge production can be a challenge, however by focusing on agreement around commonalities and points of difference, experts in IPBES have developed an approach that accommodates both diversity and consensus.
Working Paper: How IPBES Works
The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is an international knowledge institution established through the United Nations system.
Journal Article: Expert Representation in IPBES
The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is an expert institution expected to transform the governance of biodiversity and ecosystem services. IPBES expands on previous initiatives and positions itself as a knowledge-policy interface open to different ways of knowing biodiversity.
Journal Article: Southern Sand Octopus
The Southern Sand Octopus, Octopus kaurna, is a small bottom-dwelling octopus species from south-eastern Australia now known to build its own burrow out of mucus.
Workshop: Productive research networks and the legacy of DIVERSITAS
This blog post was originally published on the Future Earth Blog. __________________________________________________________________ Research initiatives often find added value in the networks of people and processes they create, writes Jasper Montana. “DIVERSITAS is not just like any other scientific body – it is a network” posits Georgina Mace, the chair of the DIVERSITAS Scientific Committee. Like…
Filming Secrets Of Our Living Planet: The white rhino
This blog post was originally published on the BBC TV Blog. ______________________________________________________________ It shouldn’t have been this wet. The 4 x 4 slid across the muddy track like it was an oil slick and slammed into the bank on the edge of the road, almost knocking us all out. Water buffalo stood sodden and dripping…
Filming Human Planet: Life is all about packing cases
This blog post was originally published on the BBC Human Planet Blog _________________________________________________________________________ Metal pins are slowly spreading across the map of the world in our office – each one representing a trip, a recce, a shoot, and another sequence of Human Planet recorded onto what have now become many kilometres of magnetic video tape. …
Filming Human Planet: Mongolian Folk and Muddled Pop
This blog originally appeared on the BBC Human Planet Blog _____________________________________________________________ On a grassy hillside overlooking the undulating hills of central Mongolia, I grasp a unique insight into someone else’s world. In the valley below is the melee of a hundred charging horses kicking backlit dust into the still air. From high above, the action…