ID - 6645864 TI - Biodiversity loss AU - Perrings, Charles AU - Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics PY - 1995 SN - 0521471788 9780521471787 0521588669 1139174320 9781139174329 9780521588669 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Biodiversity conservation. KW - Biodiversity conservation KW - Economic aspects. KW - 574.472 KW - 504.03 KW - 502.5 KW - Biological diversity conservation KW - -Biodiversity KW - Conservation of biodiversity KW - Diversity conservation, Biological KW - Gender mainstreaming in biodiversity conservation KW - Maintenance of biological diversity KW - Preservation of biological diversity KW - Conservation of natural resources KW - Ecosystem management KW - Biodiversity KW - Social and socio-economical aspects of human influences on the environment. Social ecology. Ecological economics KW - The nature complex as a whole. Balance. Danger. Damage. Threat of destruction KW - Economic aspects KW - Conservation KW - 502.5 The nature complex as a whole. Balance. Danger. Damage. Threat of destruction KW - 504.03 Social and socio-economical aspects of human influences on the environment. Social ecology. Ecological economics KW - 574.472 Biodiversity KW - General ecology and biosociology KW - Economics KW - Environmental economics. KW - Biodiversity conservation - Economic aspects. KW - Business, Economy and Management UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:6645864 AB - This volume reports key findings of the Biodiversity Program of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' Beijer Institute. The program brought together a number of eminent ecologists and economists to consider the nature and significance of the biodiversity problem. In encouraging collaborative work between these closely related disciplines it sought to shed new light on the concept of diversity; the implications of biological diversity for the functioning of ecosystems; the driving forces behind biodiversity loss; and the options for promoting biodiversity conservation. The results of the program are surprising. It is shown that the core of the biodiversity problem is a loss of ecosystem resilience and the insurance it provides against the uncertain environmental effects of economic and population growth. This is as much a local as a global problem, implying that biodiversity conservation offers benefits that are as much local as global. The solutions as well as the causes of biodiversity loss lie in incentives to local users. ER -