Socioeconomic factors–including social, economic, political, and cultural factors–are at the root of these activities that are destroying habitats and species.
What are the underlying drivers of biodiversity loss?
Examples of direct drivers of biodiversity and ecosystem change are land-use change, climate change, pollution, natural resource use and exploitation, and invasive species.
What will be the economic and social consequences of this loss of biodiversity?
Biodiversity loss affects economic systems and human society. This lack of biodiversity among crops threatens food security, because varieties may be vulnerable to disease and pests, invasive species, and climate change.
What is the economic impact of biodiversity loss?
Whilst human-made changes to ecosystems have often generated large economic gains, biodiversity loss damages the functioning of ecosystems and leads to a decline in essential services, which may have severe economic consequences, particularly in the longer term.
What are the 5 factors that affect biodiversity?
Five main threats to biodiversity are commonly recognized in the programmes of work of the Convention: invasive alien species, climate change, nutrient loading and pollution, habitat change, and overexploitation.
What are the social impacts of biodiversity loss?
Biodiversity loss can have significant direct human health impacts if ecosystem services are no longer adequate to meet social needs. Indirectly, changes in ecosystem services affect livelihoods, income, local migration and, on occasion, may even cause or exacerbate political conflict.
What are the causes and effects of biodiversity loss?
Habitat destruction is a major cause of biodiversity loss. Habitat loss is caused by deforestation, overpopulation, pollution, and global warming. Species that are physically large and those living in forests or oceans are more affected by habitat reduction.
What is the economic value of Biological Diversity?
The book reviews the economic approach and the available evidence on the economic value of biodiversity The term `biological diversity’, often shortened to `biodiversity’, is an umbrella term used to describe the number, variety and variability of living organisms in a given assemblage. Biodiversity therefore embraces the whole of `Life on Earth’.
How is biodiversity an example of a global commons?
•Biodiversity is a clear example of global commons: Actions taken by one region or country affect others beyond their geographical limits; thus biodiversity has public goods and external effects that may require policy intervention. But markets may also be of great help in sustainable use and conservation.
Why is biodiversity so important to developing countries?
•Biodiversity has clear social aspects: Developed or developing countries rely directly or indirectly on biodiversity, but its value is predominantly implicit rather than explicit. The understanding of its links to poverty and different forms of capital (e.g. social capital) are still incipient.
