REIMBURSING THE FUTURE:

An evaluation of motivational, voluntary, price-based, property-right, and regulatory incentives for the conservation of biodiversity

PART 1

A report by M.D. Young, N. Gunningham, J. Elix, J. Lambert, B. Howard, P. Grabosky and E. McCrone
Prepared by CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology, the Australian Centre for Environmental Law, and Community Solutions
January 1996

Biodiversity Series, Paper No. 9
Biodiversity Unit

Table 2.1

Fundamental Causes, Underlying Causes and Threatening Processes

Fundamental    Underlying     Threatening    Outcome        
Causes -> <-   Causes -->     Processes -->                 

population     market         ecosystem &    species        
               failure        habitat loss   extinction     

population     property-right ecosystem &    lost           
growth          failure       habitat        ecological     
                              decline        function       

inequality     institutional  direct         lost           
               deficiency     species loss   ecological     
                                             community      

economic       political      gene loss                     
growth         deficiency                                   

poverty        information                   loss of value  
               failure                                      

knowledge                     climate        loss of        
deficiency                    change         options