What are the global impacts (socio, economic, others) of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation?

The reason why the “Vision” must address this question is that biodiversity loss impacts local communities, environmentally, culturally, socially, and economically. However, unless we have a global perspective of the level of the threat (ex. IPCC and climate change), we will be hard pushed to reach the tipping point of public concern to come up with the level of response required.

5 comments

1. sue.mainka@iucn.org says:

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   this question is closely linked with the question on resilience of systems to deliver ecosystem services. There are many layers between biodiversity loss/degradation and the impacts on well being. the links are not yet well articulated, especially between biodiversity loss and ecosystem services, and this is an area that merits significant attention. In addition, exploration of indicators at both ends of the scale that are correlated will be important to support global policy processes such as the post-2010 framework of the CBD and the MDGs and whatever might follow that.
2. Ntchoua says:

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   I think this topic is strongly research oriented.
   Thanks
3. Alura says:

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   I fully agree that the question raised can be considered as a priority issues for biodiversity conservation in terms of global climate change. In spite of existence of a series of methodologies to assess vulnerability of plant populations, there is still a lack of appropriate knowledge and applicable assessment technologies necessary to evaluate and predict the possible biodiversity loss and develop mitigation measures in this particular area.
4. designerfutures says:

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   There are well-established methodologies for capturing this information in Futures Studies and Integral Foresight. These fields of research are inter/multi-disciplinary. A number of world-leading, qualified futures researchers are based in Australia and are members of the World Futures Studies Federation.
   Please contact me for further information.
5. ma says:

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   Do we not already have an overview of these impacts ? Perhaps we should also focus now on the actions that could reduce the impacts.