Living in harmony with nature is the shared vision of the KM Global Biodiversity Framework for 2050 and is recognised as a central principle in sustainability decisions. Transformative change at all levels, integrating plural values and understanding human-nature interactions, is key to achieving this vision.
We invite the biodiversity community to exchange thoughts and knowledge on a just transformative change that explicitly considers the quality of life of the non-human world. We will reflect on what paradigm shift is needed for individuals and society to truly co-exist with non-humans, with special attention to a group often overlooked in these debates: domesticated non-human animals, whose lives are closely tied to the provision of certain ecosystem and cultural services.
The workshop will open with a lecture on a quality-of-life approach, followed by its operationalisation and a discussion of potential transformative change actions derived from it. This approach assesses the influence of socio-economic indicators and nature’s contributions to people within the land system on both people’s and nature’s quality of life. Participants will be invited to take the perspective of non-humans, addressing their individual and collective needs across material and non-material quality-of-life dimensions and value frames (people and nature living from, in, with, and as each other).
We propose a minimum of 90 min., extendable to 180 min. if the perspectives of other non-human groups are considered. Goals include fostering dialogue on non-human quality of life and improving its integration into assessments and transformative change frameworks. Expected outcomes include exchange, mutual learning, feedback on the approach, and networking for collaboration in this field.