Social dimensions to biodiversity

摘要

In a Comment article on page 454 of this issue, a group of researchers writing about the future direction of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) note that the organization is "promoting a predominantly science-based understanding of biodiversity". This is to be expected, you probably think. Nature, after all, is the international weekly journal of science. Science-based understanding is what Nature does.