The Nature Futures Framework (NFF) is a flexible tool designed to support the development of scenarios and models of desirable futures for people, nature and Mother Earth.

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Responding to identified limitations in existing scenario approaches, the NFF fills a gap by providing a heuristic tool for the development of nature-centric scenarios that address the diversity of human-nature relationships. It enables context- and place-specific policy options to be developed based on locally held values of nature in order to achieve a good quality of life (including human wellbeing and living well in balance and harmony with Mother Earth).

 

The NFF is intended to catalyse the development of scenarios that can be compared, and does not pre-define characteristics for individual scenarios; rather it allows the development of place- and context-specific scenarios that represent local, national, and regional priorities, ecologies and values. The use of a single framework that allows for the combining of different value perspectives for nature facilitates its application within a diverse range of regional and socio-economic contexts. It also promotes investigation of cross-scale interactions that cannot be suitably captured at single or multiple independent scales. Development of scenarios based on the NFF, within varied sociocultural, economic and political contexts and across a wide range of scales, may identify pathways toward desirable futures that achieve the goals of relevant multilateral environmental agreements and the Sustainable Development Goals.

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(Extracted from: https://www.naturefuturesframework.org/background)