ENV118 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Ecosystem Services, Anthropocentrism

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Environment and Geography/Environmental Sciences
• Course: ENV118
• Professor: Katherine Dafforn

Document Summary

Wff partners with a range of ngos and 56 different scientists around the world to gauge the state of biodiversity. Shift towards triple bottom line reporting, most of the big companies have some sort of social and environmental responsibilities: populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians have, on average, declined by 60% between. 1970 and 2014: the earth is estimated to have lost about half of its shallow water corals in the past, a fifth of the amazon has disappeared in just 50 years, nature provides services worth around. trillion a year along with ecosystem services (clean water, fresh air, food, energy, medicines, etc. ) Parallel message to the ipcc report, right on the cusp. The report takes a very anthropocentric view as this is what takes with industry and policy- makers but it is important to recognise alternative views.