Finally, there were very few scenario studies which modelled feedbacks from direct drivers, such as climate change or land use change, to socio-economic trends (an integral component of the IPBES conceptual framework; D.az et al., 2015), highlighting a key gap in the scientific literature» covering nature’s contributions to people.
These findings show that only a minority of scenario studies take account of the value of nature, its contributions to people, and good quality of life (Murray-Rust et al., 2013). They also indicate that most studies addressed the different dimensions of value only independently (e.g. MEA, 2005) or linked nature with a limited set of mainly instrumental values, excluding other dimensions such as intrinsic or relational values. This highlights a significant gap in the current scenario literature in recognizing the diversity of values (e.g. IPBES, 2016b). Closing this gap could be of particular importance as the transformative practices that may be needed for achieving sustainable futures can benefit from embracing such value diversity (Pascual et al., 2017) (see Section 5.5).