Ms.

Sana OKAYASU

This chapter contributes to improve an understanding of the effectiveness of different biodiversity science-policy interfaces (SPIs), which play a vital role in navigating policies and actions with sound evidence base. The single comprehensive study that was found to exist, assessed SPIs in terms of their ‘features’—goals, structure, process...

Scenario analyses have been used in multiple science-policy assessments to better understand complex plausible futures. Scenario archetype approaches are based on the fact that many future scenarios have similar underlying storylines, assumptions, and trends in drivers of change, which allows for grouping of scenarios into typologies, or archetypes...

The regional assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services for Asia and the Pacific of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES/6/INF/5) was accepted by the IPBES Plenary at its Fifth Meeting in March 2018. The clean, published version will be available to the public at a later date.

The Asia-Pacific Regional Assessment is a collective effort among more than 120 researchers, scientists, academics and ILK holders from 27 countries from within and outside the region. Collectively the author team represents several IPBES member governments, non-governmental organizations, academic institutions and private sector companies. The...

The Regional Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for Asia and the Pacific produced by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) provides a critical analysis of the state of knowledge regarding the importance, status, and trends of biodiversity and nature’s contributions to...

>Towards effective interdisciplinary SPIs
- More dynamic, iterative and collaborative interactions with practitioners, knowledge holders (including ILK) and policymakers
- Consolidating interdisciplinary study that recognises the interconnectedness of social and ecological system
- Joint formation of research and policy
- Building capacity and...

>Towards effective interdisciplinary SPIs
- More dynamic, iterative and collaborative interactions with practitioners, knowledge holders (including ILK) and policymakers
- Consolidating interdisciplinary study that recognises the interconnectedness of social and ecological system
- Joint formation of research and policy
- Building capacity and...

JBF Capacity Building Project held the South and West Asia sub-regional dialogue workshop in Dhulikhel (Kathmandu), Nepal from 29 November to 2 December, 2016, organised by IGES and funded by Japan. ILK holders/experts and experts on ILK from India, Iran, Nepal, and Pakistan attended. The presentation by ILK holders/experts and the discussion...