Download Unintended Consequences That Alter Landscapes And Biodiversity Background. In the social sciences, unintended consequences (sometimes unanticipated consequences or unforeseen consequences) are outcomes of a purposeful action that are not intended or foreseen. The consequences of these changes are such that.

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Unintended consequences happen so often that economists call them cobra problems, after a famous historic example. A research agenda for we as a species are rapidly altering the world that provides our evolutionary and ecological context. Creating landscape patterns by forest cutting:

This alarming trend endangers economies, livelihoods, food security and the quality of life of people everywhere.

For example, a law may be implemented with the best intentions to help a. Biodiversity loss, the reduction in an area's biodiversity (the number of genes, species, individual organisms, or ecosystems) expressed by species loss, population declines and reductions in the genetic diversity within a species, and the collapse of biological communities. The law of unintended consequences, often cited but rarely defined, is that actions of people—and especially of government—always have effects that are unanticipated or unintended. Biodiversity is defined as the totality of genes, species, and ecosystems in a defined area.