TY - JOUR

T1 - Building capacity for the science-policy interface on biodiversity and ecosystem services

T2 - Activities, fellows, outcomes, and neglected capacity building needs

AU - Gustafsson, Karin M.

AU - Díaz-Reviriego, Isabel

AU - Turnhout, Esther

N1 - This work was supported by the Swedish Research Council Formas [2016-00545] and a Flexpool grant from the German Centre of Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) funded through the German Research Foundation [ DFG FZT 118/2–2016 ].

PY - 2020/6/1

Y1 - 2020/6/1

N2 - Capacity building has been identified as being of importance for the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). As the IPBES is becoming an influential expert organization, it is essential to examine what capacity building means in its context, what capacities it has built, and what implications these capacities have. This study explores these issues by focusing on the IPBES's general strategy for capacity building, the IPBES's fellowship programme and to what extent there are additional capacity building needs that can be addressed. The study shows that the IPBES has focused its capacity building efforts on the science side of the science-policy interface while, thus far, it has neglected to build capacities on the policy side of the interface. The study provides insight into how capacity building for the science-policy interface sets preconditions for science-policy relations at different levels and scales within biodiversity and ecosystem services and beyond.

AB - Capacity building has been identified as being of importance for the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). As the IPBES is becoming an influential expert organization, it is essential to examine what capacity building means in its context, what capacities it has built, and what implications these capacities have. This study explores these issues by focusing on the IPBES's general strategy for capacity building, the IPBES's fellowship programme and to what extent there are additional capacity building needs that can be addressed. The study shows that the IPBES has focused its capacity building efforts on the science side of the science-policy interface while, thus far, it has neglected to build capacities on the policy side of the interface. The study provides insight into how capacity building for the science-policy interface sets preconditions for science-policy relations at different levels and scales within biodiversity and ecosystem services and beyond.

KW - Capacity building

KW - Early-career researchers

KW - Empowerment

KW - IPBES

KW - Participation

KW - Science-policy interface

KW - Ecosystems Research

KW - Biology

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85087933184&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.esg.2020.100050

DO - 10.1016/j.esg.2020.100050

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85087933184

VL - 4

JO - Earth System Governance

JF - Earth System Governance

SN - 2589-8116

M1 - 100050

ER -