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Anantha Kumar Duraiappah
Researcher at United Nations University
Publications - 56
Citations - 10288
Anantha Kumar Duraiappah is an academic researcher from United Nations University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ecosystem services & Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 55 publications receiving 9226 citations. Previous affiliations of Anantha Kumar Duraiappah include VU University Amsterdam & United Nations Environment Programme.
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Ecosystems and Human well-being
Colin D. Butler,Robert Chambers,Kanchan Chopra,Partha Dasgupta,Anantha Kumar Duraiappah,Pushpam Kumar,Anthony J. McMichael,Julian Wells +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify direct and indirect pathways between ecosystem change and human well-being, whether it be positive or negative, and they argue that ecological security warrants recognition as a sixth freedom of equal weight with participative freedom, economic opportunities, transparency guarantees, and protective security.
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Science for managing ecosystem services: Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Stephen R. Carpenter,Harold A. Mooney,John Agard,D. Capistrano,Ruth DeFries,Sandra Díaz,Thomas Dietz,Anantha Kumar Duraiappah,Alfred Oteng-Yeboah,Henrique M. Pereira,Charles Perrings,Walter V. Reid,José Sarukhán,Robert J. Scholes,Anne Whyte +14 more
TL;DR: New research is needed that considers the full ensemble of processes and feedbacks, for a range of biophysical and social systems, to better understand and manage the dynamics of the relationship between humans and the ecosystems on which they rely.
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The IPBES Conceptual Framework - connecting nature and people
Sandra Díaz,Sebsebe Demissew,Julia Carabias,Carlos Alfredo Joly,Mark Lonsdale,Neville Ash,Anne Larigauderie,Jay Ram Adhikari,Salvatore Arico,András Báldi,Ann M. Bartuska,Ivar Andreas Baste,Adem Bilgin,Eduardo S. Brondizio,Kai M. A. Chan,Viviana E. Figueroa,Anantha Kumar Duraiappah,Markus Fischer,Rosemary Hill,Thomas Koetz,Paul Leadley,Philip O'b. Lyver,Georgina M. Mace,Berta Martín-López,Michiko Okumura,Diego Pacheco,Unai Pascual,Edgar Selvin Pérez,Belinda Reyers,Eva Roth,Osamu Saito,Robert J. Scholes,Nalini Sharma,Heather Tallis,Randolph R. Thaman,Robert T. Watson,Tetsukazu Yahara,Zakri Abdul Hamid,Callistus Akosim,Yousef S. Al-Hafedh,Rashad Allahverdiyev,Edward Amankwah,T. Stanley Asah,Zemede Asfaw,Gabor Bartus,Anathea L. Brooks,Jorge Caillaux,Gemedo Dalle,Dedy Darnaedi,Amanda Driver (Sanbi),Gunay Erpul,Pablo Escobar-Eyzaguirre,Pierre Failler,Ali Moustafa Mokhtar Fouda,Bojie Fu,Haripriya Gundimeda,Shizuka Hashimoto,Floyd Homer,Sandra Lavorel,Gabriela Lichtenstein,William Armand Mala,Wadzanayi Mandivenyi,Piotr Matczak,Carmel Mbizvo,Mehrasa Mehrdadi,Jean Paul Metzger,Jean Bruno Mikissa,Henrik Moller,Harold A. Mooney,Peter J. Mumby,Harini Nagendra,Carsten Nesshöver,Alfred Oteng-Yeboah,György Pataki,Marie Roué,Jennifer Rubis,Maria Schultz,Peggy Smith,Rashid Sumaila,Kazuhiko Takeuchi,Spencer Thomas,Madhu Verma,Youn Yeo-Chang,Diana Zlatanova +83 more
TL;DR: The first public product of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is its Conceptual Framework as discussed by the authors, which will underpin all IPBES functions and provide structure and comparability to the syntheses that will produce at different spatial scales, on different themes, and in different regions.
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Natural capital and ecosystem services informing decisions: From promise to practice
Anne D. Guerry,Anne D. Guerry,Stephen Polasky,Jane Lubchenco,Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer,Gretchen C. Daily,Gretchen C. Daily,Robert J. Griffin,Mary Ruckelshaus,Mary Ruckelshaus,Ian J. Bateman,Anantha Kumar Duraiappah,Thomas Elmqvist,Marcus W. Feldman,Carl Folke,Carl Folke,Jonathan M. Hoekstra,Peter Kareiva,Bonnie L. Keeler,Shuzhuo Li,Emily McKenzie,Zhiyun Ouyang,Belinda Reyers,Taylor H. Ricketts,Johan Rockström,Heather Tallis,Bhaskar Vira +26 more
TL;DR: Why ecosystem service information has yet to fundamentally change decision-making is explored and a path forward is suggested that emphasizes developing solid evidence linking decisions to impacts on natural capital and ecosystem services, and then to human well-being.
Book
Ecosystems and human well-being - Synthesis: A Report of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Walter V. Reid,Harold A. Mooney,A. Cropper,D. Capistrano,S. R. Carpenter,Kanchan Chopra,P. Dasgupta,Thomas Dietz,Anantha Kumar Duraiappah,Rashid M. Hassan,R. Kasperson,Rik Leemans,R.M. May,A.J. McMichael,Prabhu Pingali,C. Samper,Robert J. Scholes,Robert T. Watson,A.H. Zakri,Z. Shidong,Neville Ash,Elena M. Bennett,Pradeep Kumar,M.J. Lee,Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne,H. Simons,J. Thonell,Monika Zurek +27 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a synthesis and integration of the findings of the four MA Working Groups (Condition and Trends, Scenarios, Responses, and Sub-global Assessments).