Framing natural assets for advancing sustainability research: translating different perspectives into actions.

ABSTRACT: Sustainability is a key challenge for humanity in the context of complex and unprecedented global changes. Future Earth, an international research initiative aiming to advance global sustainability science, has recently launched knowledge-action networks (KANs) as mechanisms for delivering its research strategy. The research initiative is currently developing a KAN on "natural assets" to facilitate and enable action-oriented research and synthesis towards natural assets sustainability. 'Natural assets' has been adopted by Future Earth as an umbrella term aiming to translate and bridge across different knowledge systems and different perspectives on peoples' relationships with nature. In this paper, we clarify the framing of Future Earth around natural assets emphasizing the recognition on

SUBMITTER: Martinez-Harms MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6267164 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature