Let’s Play 4 Corners!
Where is your favorite place in nature?Mountains
Ocean Forest
Can’t Stand Being Outside
What is Your Favorite Season?Winter
Fall Spring
Summer
Which of the following is the most critical environmental issue facing the world today?
Biodiversity Loss
Air and Water Pollution Climate Change
Human Population Growth
Why Should We Protect the Rainforest?
The Cure for Cancer could be somewhere in there.
It is so beautiful!
It has the right to exist!
It is a way to store carbon which prevents Global Climate Change.
Utilitarian
Categories of Justification
Assign value to the environment as a function of its economic or survival benefits for humans - greatest good = greatest value
EcologicalEmphasizes the value of community life-support function over direct individual benefits.
AestheticValue is based on human appreciation of natural beauty.
MoralAssign rights to natural entities, such as individuals, species, or ecosystems.
Why Should We Protect the Rainforest?
The Cure for Cancer could be somewhere in there.
It is so beautiful!
It has the right to exist!
It is a way to store carbon which prevents Global Climate Change.
Utilitarian
Ecological
Aesthetic Moral
Ecosystems are essential to our survival because the provide life supporting goods and services.
Thank You Ecosystems!
There are different types of ecosystem services.
Let’s explore our ecosystem services!
Provision Regulating Support Cultural
Provisions:What Did You Find?
Regulating:
Supporting:
Cultural:
Ecosystem Goods and Services
People determine the value based on economics which is easy to do for goods but not services.
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