Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change

• Autores: Díaz, Sandra; Settele, Josef; Brondízio, Eduardo S.; Ngo, Hien T.; Agard, John; Arneth, Almut; Balvanera, Patricia; Brauman, Kate A.; Butchart, Stuart H.; Chan, Kai M.; Garibaldi, Lucas Alejandro; Ichii, Kazuhito; Liu, Jianguo; Subramanian, Suneetha M.; Midgley, Guy F.; Miloslavich, Patricia; Molnár, Zsolt; Obura, David; Pfaff, Alexander; Polasky, Stephen; Purvis, Andy; Razzaque, Jona; Reyers, Belinda; Roy Chowdhury, Rinku; Shin, Yunne J.; Visseren Hamakers, Ingrid; Willis, Katherine J.; Zayas, Cynthia N.
• Año de publicación: 2019
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Materia: Pervasive; Human-Driven; Transformative Change
• Institución: Universidad Nacional de Río Negro

Fil: Díaz, Sandra. Consejo Nacional de investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal; Argentina.
Fil: Díaz, Sandra. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales; Argentina.
Fil: Settele, Josef. Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ. Department of Community Ecology; Alemania.
Fil: Settele, Josef. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research–iDiv; Alemania.
Fil: Brondízio, Eduardo S. Indiana University. Department of Anthropology; Estados Unidos.
Fil: Ngo, Hien T. Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Secretariat; Alemania.
Fil: Agard, John. University of the West Indies. Department of Life Sciences; Trinidad y Tobago.
Fil: Arneth, Almut. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research. Atmospheric Environmental Research; Alemania.
Fil: Balvanera, Patricia. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad; México.
Fil: Brauman, Kate A. University of Minnesota. Institute on the Environment; Estados Unidos.
Fil: Butchart, Stuart H. BirdLife International; Reino Unido.
Fil: Butchart, Stuart H. University of Cambridge. Department of Zoology; Reino Unido.
Fil: Chan, Kai M. The University of British Columbia. Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability; Canada.
Fil: Garibaldi, Lucas Alejandro. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Instituto de Investigaciones en Recursos Naturales, Agroecología y Desarrollo Rural; Argentina.
Fil: Garibaldi, Lucas Alejandro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Investigaciones en Recursos Naturales, Agroecología y Desarrollo Rural; Argentina.
Fil: Ichii, Kazuhito. Chiba University. Center for Environmental Remote Sensing; Japón.
Fil: Ichii, Kazuhito. National Institute for Environmental Studies. Center for Global Environmental Research; Japón.
Fil: Liu, Jianguo. Michigan State University. Department of Fisheries and Wildlife. Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability; Estados Unidos.
Fil: Subramanian, Suneetha M. United Nations University. Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability; Japón.
Fil: Subramanian, Suneetha M. United Nations University. International Institute for Global Health; Malasia.
Fil: Midgley, Guy F. Stellenbosch University. Department of Botany and Zoology. Global Change Biology Group; Sudáfrica.
Fil: Miloslavich, Patricia. University of Tasmania. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies; Australia.
Fil: Miloslavich, Patricia. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. Oceans and Atmosphere; Australia.
Fil: Miloslavich, Patricia. Universidad Simón Bolívar. Departamento de Estudios Ambientales; Venezuela.
Fil: Molnár, Zsolt. Magyar Tudományos Akadémia. Centre for Ecological Research Institute of Ecology and Botany; Hungría.
Fil: Obura, David. Coastal Oceans Research and Development - Indian Ocean; Kenia.
Fil: Obura, David. The University of Queensland. Global Climate Institute; Australia.
Fil: Pfaff, Alexander. Duke University. Sanford School of Public Policy; Estados Unidos.
Fil: Polasky, Stephen. University of Minnesota. Department of Applied Economics; Estados Unidos.
Fil: Polasky, Stephen. University of Minnesota. Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; Estados Unidos.
Fil: Purvis, Andy. Natural History Museum. Department of Life Sciences; Reino Unido.
Fil: Purvis, Andy. Imperial College London. Grand Challenges in Ecosystems and the Environment; Reino Unido.
Fil: Razzaque, Jona. University of the West of England. Faculty of Business and Law. Department of Law; Reino Unido.
Fil: Reyers, Belinda. Stockholm University. Stockholm Resilience Centre; Suecia.
Fil: Reyers, Belinda. Stellenbosch University. Department of Conservation Ecology; Sudáfrica.
Fil: Roy Chowdhury, Rinku. Clark University. Graduate School of Geography; Estados Unidos.
Fil: Shin, Yunne J. University of Montpellier; Francia.
Fil: Shin, Yunne J. University of Cape Town. Marine Research Institute. Department of Biological Sciences; Sudáfrica.
Fil: Visseren Hamakers, Ingrid. George Mason University. Department of Environmental Science and Policy; Estados Unidos.
Fil: Visseren Hamakers, Ingrid. Radboud University. Institute for Management Research; Países Bajos.
Fil: Willis, Katherine J. Royal Botanic Gardens; Reino Unido.
Fil: Willis, Katherine J. University of Oxford. Department of Zoology. Long-Term Ecology Laboratory; Reino Unido.
Fil: Zayas, Cynthia N. University of the Philippines. Center for International Studies; Filipinas.
The human impact on life on Earth has increased sharply since the 1970s, driven by the demands of a growing population with rising average per capita income. Nature is currently supplying more materials than ever before, but this has come at the high cost of unprecedented global declines in the extent and integrity of ecosystems, distinctness of local ecological communities, abundance and number of wild species, and the number of local domesticated varieties. Such changes reduce vital benefits that people receive from nature and threaten the quality of life of future generations. Both the benefits of an expanding economy and the costs of reducing nature’s benefits are unequally distributed. The fabric of life on which we all depend—nature and its contributions to people—is unravelling rapidly. Despite the severity of the threats and lack of enough progress in tackling them to date, opportunities exist to change future trajectories through transformative action. Such action must begin immediately, however, and address the root economic, social, and technological causes of nature’s deterioration.