Increased environmental challenges require explicitly including Nature as a stakeholder in software-intensive systems development. Currently, we are lacking a structured representation of the aspects of Nature as a stakeholder. Consequently, we continue to ignore specifically non-human stakeholders and their needs. We use design science research to contribute an artifact (the ``Nature as a Stakeholder'' taxonomy) developed in two iterations. The artefact can serve as reference taxonomy for Nature-aware development so we are accounting for environmental externalities.

Birgit Penzenstadler is faculty at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and Lappeenranta Lahti University of Technology, Finland (before: California State University Long Beach). Her research focus is how neuroplasticity practices can support engineers and other computer workers in improving their presence, creativity, cognitive abilities, immune systems, sleep and overall resilience (for details, see https://www.twinkleflip.com). She has been researching the relation between sustainability and software engineering for a decade and focuses on artifact-based requirements engineering and requirements engineering for sustainability. Her expertise includes requirements elicitation, analysis, design and documentation techniques, for example sustainability goal modeling, as well as artifact models, quality modeling, tool support, and process improvement (see https://www.sustainabilitydesign.org and http://birgit.penzenstadler.de). Penzenstadler received a habilitation from the Technical University of Munich’s Faculty of Informatics. She’s a member of IEEE and ACM. Contact her at birgitp @ chalmers.se