ENVIRON 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Conservation Easement, Industrial Revolution, Water Cycle

• School: U of M
• Department: Environment
• Course: ENVIRON 201
• Professor: John Benedict

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Lecture 20: forests and protected areas (ch 12: pes: a voluntary transaction where the buyer pays the provider for a well-defined ecological services, redd: reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. The science behind the story: do payments help preserve forest? (pg. 142): goal conserve forests for (cid:449)atershed prote(cid:272)tio(cid:374), (cid:271)iodi(cid:448)ersity, s(cid:272)e(cid:374)i(cid:272) (cid:271)eauty, a(cid:374)d (cid:272)ar(cid:271)o(cid:374) storage. Go(cid:448)"t sour(cid:272)e fu(cid:374)ds fro(cid:373) users of these services. Money paid to landowners if they acheive forest conservation goals. List at least 5 ecosystem services that are provided by forests. Give an example: buyer pays provider for a well-defined ecological service, example of pes: psa in costa rica. Industrial revolution: huge demand fro lumber: consequences: clearance of primary forests; fundament change in the ecosystem, post- logging fire, the main goals of establishing national forests are: to produce timber, protect watersheds, and ensure future timber supplies. List 3 benefits of protected areas: conserving biodiversity and ecosystems, ecosystem services (clean water, carbon sequestering)