Country possessing genetic resources in in-situ conditions (CBD, 1992).

A technique designed to determine the feasibility of a project or plan by quantifying its costs and benefits.

A procedure for estimating all costs involved and possible profits (benefits) to be derived from a business or development opportunity or proposal.

The ways any society develops worldviews that aim at explaining the content and the dynamics of the universe, its spatial and temporal properties, the types of living beings that inhabits it, the principles and energies that explains its origin and its future.

see cosmocentric.

A geographically defined area which allows species to move between landscapes, ecosystems and habitats, natural or modified, and is intended to ensure the maintenance of biodiversity and ecological and evolutionary processes.

A model in which available empirical data are used to estimate values for parameters that do not have predefined ecological meaning, and for which processes are implicit rather than explicit.

Geographical term for a roughly triangular area of tropical ocean that includes the coastal waters of Malaysia, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands and is recognised as the global centre of coral reef and marine biodiversity and a global conservation priority.

When water is too warm, corals will expel the algae (zooxanthellae) living in their tissues causing the coral to turn completely white. Corals can survive a bleaching event, but they are under more stress and are subject to mortality.

In the context of the IPBES conceptual framework, this is the joint contribution by nature and anthropogenic assets in generating nature's contributions to people.