Data for 'Nature's contributions to people and the Sustainable Development Goals in Nepal'

Title: Data for 'Nature's contributions to people and the Sustainable Development Goals in Nepal'

Recommended Citation: Adhikari, B., Prescott, G., Urbach, D., Chettri, N., & Fischer, M. (2022). Nature’s contributions to people and the sustainable development goals in Nepal. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac8e1e

Principal Investigator: Markus Fischer ([e-mail])

Authors:
Biraj Adhikari ([e-mail], ORCID: 0000-0002-4260-8706)
Graham W Prescott ([e-mail], ORCID:0000-0001-5123-514X)
Davnah Urbach ([e-mail], ORCID: 0000-0001-9170-7834)
Nakul Chettri ([e-mail], ORCID: 0000-0002-3338-8879)
Markus Fischer ([e-mail], ORCID: 0000-0002-5589-5900)

Date of data collection: November 2020 - August 2021
Location of data collection: Kathmandu, Nepal
Article title: 'Nature's contributions to people and the Sustainable Development Goals in Nepal'

R code available at: https://github.com/biraj-ad/r4dLiteratureReview_GithubRep

Data Overview:

1. 'Literature_References.csv'
List of 119 peer-reviewed journals and 21 grey literature documents used in the review. Each is assigned a unique identifier ("SN Ref") to link it to the other files.

2. 'Drivers_and_Trends.csv'
The "Quote" column is the text from papers which has information on (i) trends in ecosystems or NCPs, and if available (ii) direct and/or indirect drivers causing the trends.
The "Nature" column indicates which ecosystem (Forest, Farmland, Freshwater, Grassland, Others, and Directly to NCP), the "NCP" column indicates which NCP (categorized into 18 categories based on the IPBES classification) the text refers to. The "NCP Category" column indicates whether the said NCP is a regulating, material or non-material NCP.   
We also categorized direct and indirect drivers based on the IPBES classification (Direct Drivers: Land-use Change, Climate Change, Direct Exploitation, Invasive Alien Species, and Pollution; Indirect Drivers: Institutions and Governance, Demographic and Sociocultural, Economic and Technological).    
If there were more than one drivers of change for a particular NCP, we have included them in additional columns. In order to avoid multiple counts for trends of a particular NCP, we introduced the "TrendCount" column. For example, columns 3, 4 and 5 refers to the same trend of decreasing WQN, but has 3 Direct Drivers. Therefore, each TrendCount is given a weight of 0.33 so that the total trend adds upto 1.

3. 'NCP_to_SDG.csv'
The "Quote" Column is the text from papers which has information on which NCP is contributing towards which SDG. "Remarks from text" are the authors' own remarks based on the text and the overall context of the article.
The contribution of NCPs are classified as positive or negative, and indicated in the column "Effect (pos/neg)"
The "NCP" column indicates which NCP (categorized into 18 categories according to IPBES) the text refers to, while the "Contribution to SDG" column indicates which SDG the NCP is contributing towards.
The "Ecosystem" column indicates which ecosystem (Forest, Farmland, Freshwater, Grassland, Others) the NCP is being supplied from.

Codes for NCPS:
HAB (Habitat Creation and Maintenance), POL (Pollination and dispersal of seeds and other propagules), AIR (Regulation of Air Quality), CLI (Regulation of Climate), WQN (Regulation of Freshwater Quantity, Location, and Timing), WQL (Regulation of Freshwater and Coastal Water Quality), SOI (Formation, Protection, and Decontamination of Soils and Sediments), HAZ (Regulation of Hazards and Extreme Events), ORG (Regulation of Organisms Detrimental to Humans), NRG (Energy), FOD (Food and Feed), MAT (Materials and Assistance), MED (Medicinal, Biochemical, and Genetic Resources), INS (Learning and Inspiration), EXP (Physical and Psychological Experiences), IDE (Supporting Identities), and OPT (Maintenance of Options).

4. 'Data_consolidated.xlsx'
The above three data files combined into one xlsx document