CHEM 1000H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Catskill Mountains, Ecosystem Services, Urban Forest
14 Feb 2018
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A healthy agroecosystem has the ability to: optimise long-term productivity, maximize resistance to environmental variability, maximize resilience, minimize inputs, support human communities, minimize negative environmental impacts, maximize sensory and nutritional quality. Driven by the general rise of market-based approaches to environmental management. Intent is to assign ownership and encourage economically rationale trade-offs between development goals and environmental quality. Elements identified as ecosystem services tend to be processes rather than commodities such as timber. Considered public good that are difficult to own individually. E(cid:272)osyste(cid:373) se(cid:396)(cid:448)i(cid:272)es a(cid:396)e (cid:374)ot fully (cid:862)(cid:272)aptu(cid:396)ed(cid:863) i(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)e(cid:396)(cid:272)ial (cid:373)a(cid:396)kets/ade(cid:395)uately (cid:395)ua(cid:374)tified i(cid:374) terms of comparable value. If we continue to neglect, we may compromise our own futures. Government can offer payments to landowners to adopt practises that protect ecosystem services (direct subsidy) This increases the carbon and biodiversity indices by 1. 1 to 1. 6 spots. Environmental conservation is based on restoring and protecting ecosystem services.
