IPBES technical Guidline Series - Directory

Published

2025-09-24 17:37 ‘UTC’

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

Introduction

TGs (Technical Guidelines) are documents that provide technical guidance on specific tasks or methods relevant to the work of IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services). They are intended to support the implementation of IPBES assessments and other deliverables by providing practical advice and best practices.

These guidelines are developed by the tsu (IPBES Data and Knowledge Technical Support Unit) together with the associated tf (Task Force on Knowledge and Data) and approved by the MEP (Multidisciplinary Expert Panel) and the Bureau.

Not all TGS are relevant to all IPBES experts. TO make it easier to identify the relevant TGs, each TG is tagged with one or more of the following tags:

  • Expert expert: Relevant for the TF and other IPBES experts
  • TSUs tsu: Relevant for the IPBES tsus apart from the assessment tsus
  • Secretariat secretariat: Relevant for the IPBES secretariat
  • Assesment Tsu assesment_tsu: Relevant for the assessment tsus
  • Assessment Experts assesment_experts: Relevant for the assessment experts

Each individual TG is available as a html as well as pdf and is deposited including the source file and all required additional files on Zenodo and consequently has a DOI. At the end of each TG a suggested citation can be found.

Each TG is versioned and the version number is indicated in the document. If a TG is updated, the new version will be made available on Zenodo with a new DOI. The previous versions will remain accessible for reference.

The following Icons are used to indicate the relevant target groups for each TG:

Current Technical Guidelines

nonenonenonenonenone Part 1 - Conversion to the Robinson Projection

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6840235 TO BE ADDED

nonenonenonenonenone Part 10 - Contributing authors template email

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6655926 TO BE ADDED

nonenonenonenonenone Part 11 - How to Document an Indicator

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6882518 TO BE ADDED

nonenonenonenonenone Part 12A - file naming convention

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10004406 TO BE ADDED

nonenonenonenonenone Part 12B - versioning scheme

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10004407 TO BE ADDED

nonenonenonenonenone Part 12C - experts list

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10004409 TO BE ADDED

nonenonenonenonenone Part 2 - Preparing and mapping data

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6992546 TO BE ADDED

nonenonenonenonenone Part 3 - Cartographic Guidelines

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6992222 TO BE ADDED

nonenonenonenonenone Part 4 - Guidelines for Colour

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6838820 TO BE ADDED

nonenonenonenonenone Part 5 - File Formats

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6839037 TO BE ADDED

nonenonenonenonenone Part 6 - How to Upload to and Download from Zenodo

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6834336 TO BE ADDED

nonenonenonenonenone Part 8 - Guidelines for the delivery of figures

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6833989 TO BE ADDED

nonenonenonenonenone Part 9 - Considerations when working with Indigenous and local knowledge

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6834183 TO BE ADDED

nonenonenonenonenone Snowball Search for Literature Search and Analysis using OpenAlex

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10257156 In addition to the typical literature search using search terms, one can conduct a snowball search. A snowball search starts from a set of identified key-papers, and the snowball search will identify the publications cited in the key papers as well as the publications citing the key-paper. This search strategy identifies related articles using citation relationships (not keywords), building a citation network based on the key-papers Here we will demonstrate how a snowballing search can be conducted using OpenAlex and R with code examples and discuss some shortcomings and advantages of this approach. Furthermore, we will outline some analysis approaches and possibilities of a citation network without going into too much detail

experttsunonenonenone TEMPLATE - How To Author a Technical Guideline

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