| Summary: | 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. Fil: Díaz, Sandra Myrna. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal; Argentina Fil: Settele, Josef. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research; Alemania. Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research; Alemania Fil: Brondízio, Eduardo S. Indiana University; Estados Unidos Fil: Ngo, Hien T. Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem; Alemania Fil: Agard, John. University of the West Indies; Trinidad y Tobago Fil: Arneth, Almut. Karlsruher Institut für Technology; Alemania Fil: Balvanera, Patricia. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; México Fil: Brauman, Kate A. University of Minnesota; Estados Unidos Fil: Butchart, Stuart H. M. University of Cambridge; Reino Unido Fil: Chan, Kai M. A. University of British Columbia; Canadá Fil: Garibaldi, Lucas Alejandro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte. Instituto de Investigaciones en Recursos Naturales, Agroecología y Desarrollo Rural. - Universidad Nacional de Rio Negro. Instituto de Investigaciones en Recursos Naturales, Agroecología y Desarrollo Rural; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Sede Andina. Instituto de Investigaciones en Recursos Naturales, Agroecología y Desarrollo Rural; Argentina Fil: Ichii, Kazuhito. Chiba University; Japón. National Institute For Environmental Studies; Japón Fil: Liu, Jianguo. Michigan State University; Estados Unidos Fil: Subramanian, Suneetha M. Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability; Japón. International Institute For Global Health; Malasia Fil: Midgley, Guy F. Stellenbosch University; Sudáfrica Fil: Miloslavich, Patricia. Universidad Simón Bolívar; Venezuela. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies; Australia Fil: Molnár, Zsolt. Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia; Hungría Fil: Obura, David. University of Queensland; Australia Fil: Pfaff, Alexander. University of Duke; Estados Unidos Fil: Polasky, Stephen. University of Minnesota; Estados Unidos Fil: Purvis, Andy. Imperial College London; Reino Unido. Natural History Museum; Reino Unido Fil: Razzaque, Jona. University of the West of England. Faculty of Business and Law; Australia Fil: Reyers, Belinda. Stockholms Universitet; Suecia Fil: Chowdhury, Rinku Roy. Clark University; Estados Unidos Fil: Shin, Yunne Jai. University of Cape Town; Sudáfrica. Université Montpellier II; Francia Fil: Visseren Hamakers, Ingrid. Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen; Países Bajos. George Mason University; Estados Unidos Fil: Willis, Katherine J. University of Oxford; Reino Unido. Royal Botanic Gardens; Reino Unido Fil: Zayas, Cynthia N. University of the Philippines Diliman; Filipinas
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