Resources (e.g., plants, animals, air, water, soils, minerals, etc.) that combine to yield a flow of benefits (i.e., ecosystem services) to people. Within the IPBES conceptual framework, it represents an economic-utilitarian perspective on nature, specifically those aspects of nature that people use (or anticipate using) as a source of nature’s contributions to people (NCP).
Source: IPBES (2019), Global Assessment Report, Glossary; UNDP, 2016b.
