Conservation futures 2050: Developing future scenarios to explore potential socio-economic developments and their impact on biodiversity

came from universities, research organisations, central government agencies, local government and consultancies, and included both established and emerging researchers, people originally from AoNZ and from overseas, and indigenous peoples. Because scenario development is always subjective and influenced by the areas of expertise of those involved, we invited a Fig 1. The process of developing the scenario narratives is illustrated, with purple boxes showing actions taken by the core authors (JLB, AJB, DAP) and the green boxes showing activities done with the full set of workshop participants. The blue box shows action taken by the authors of this manuscript. White clouds show the dimensions that workshop participants considered when developing the scenarios. The scenario ideas initially proposed, and the questions used to stimulate thinking about the scenarios are available at [37]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311361.g001 PLOS ONE Conservation futures 2050 PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311361 December 12, 2024 4 / 16