Have your say in the development of The Nature Relationship Index
People with environmental expertise in all its forms — not just formal qualifications, but lived experience, community knowledge, and professional practice across sectors — are called to offer feedback on the development of the Nature Relationship Index.
📅 Closes 22 October
🔗 Provide feedback here
The Nature Relationship Index (NRI) aims to recognise mutually supportive relationships between people and nature as meaningful components of monitoring and motivating human development.
CPAS academics, Jasper Montana and Rachael Gross, are supporting the development of this new global index to be included in the forthcoming Human Development Report. They are bringing their expertise in science communication to provide strategic leadership on broadening public engagement and diverse scientific input into the design and development of the index.
This aspirational approach to measuring national-level progress towards a future where people thrive together with the rest of life on Earth was first proposed by the team led by Professor Erle Ellis (UMBC) last year in a Perspective in the journal Nature.
For this, Dr. Montana led an international ‘concept testing’ process engaging general population samples from across the five United Nations regions to enhance the social robustness of the descriptions and measures being proposed as part of the NRI.
Now, Dr Montana and Dr Gross are leading a global expert consultation to further enhance participation in the development of this index. Through an open online consultation portal and expert consultation meetings, they are engaging scientists, policymakers and industry to help identify and evaluate suitable indicators for the NRI.
This is an open, participatory process inviting input from people with environmental expertise in all its forms — not just formal qualifications, but lived experience, community knowledge, and professional practice across sectors.
If you have relevant interest and expertise (or know someone that does), please support the Human Development Report develop the NRI by offering feedback to the consultation linked above.
You can opt in to be acknowledged in the UN Human Development Report or remain anonymous.
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