Biology 3445F Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Ecosystem Services, Planetary Boundaries, Primary Production
Document Summary
The depressing truth: worldwide biodiversity decline: intrinsic value of biodiversity, recognition of changes to ecosystem function. What does this mean for human well-being: ecosystem services: global stakeholders, millennium ecosystem assessment (2005) Define: resources and services derived from nature that bring benefits to humans contribute to making human. Ecosystem services life both possible and worth living. Categories of ecosystem services: provisioning: supply goods of direct benefit to people, regulating: range of functions carried out by ecosystems, cultural: contributing to wider needs/desires of society, supporting: essential to the functioning of ecosystems. Provisioning ecosystem services production of raw materials. Essential inputs into all economic production: market goods (commodities) Regulating ecosystem services regulatory functions of ecosystems. Generally, not given a monetary value in. Cultural ecosystem services provide wider needs of society. Aesthetic values, knowledge systems (traditional and formal i. e. scientific discovery), social systems (social relationships), sense-of-place (recognizing and acknowledging their environment) Non-material benefits people obtain; generally not considered in conventional markets.
