ABSTRACT
Nature Positive is not an idea that is completely new to science. Fundamentally, it is about establishing a social-ecological system in which the net result for nature over time is regeneration, rather than depletion. Therefore, it builds upon many decades of conservation science and ecology, hundreds of years of biological science, and thousands of years of human ingenuity as regards the sustainable and restorative use of natural resources.
What Nature Positive does require from scientists, however, is for them to bring together and integrate the best available knowledge and evidence from across the recent technical literature; in a way that allows them to map out specific pathways from where the world was in 2020, towards halting loss of nature by 2030, towards global nature recovery by 2050, and beyond. In ‘The science of Nature Positive’, the author reflects on some of the scientific literature specific to current discussions on Nature Positive.
