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Concept of Cultural Ecosystem Services : Assignment

   

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TABLE OF CONTENTSIdentifying key ecosystem services which are provided by environment........................................3REFERENCES.................................................................................................................................4Key Causes of Bio diversity loss ....................................................................................................5REFERENCES.................................................................................................................................7Managing risk is a social and technical process...............................................................................8REFERENCES.................................................................................................................................9Targets which UK government has set for Greenhouse Gas emission..........................................10REFERENCES...............................................................................................................................11Montreal Protocol is seen as success.............................................................................................12REFERENCES...............................................................................................................................14
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Identifying key ecosystem services which are provided by environmentEnvironment plays an important role in human life and population require bestsurroundings for improving their health conditions as well as living standards. Ecosystemservices usually render direct and indirect contribution to human and well-being. As stated, theyeither support directly or indirectly and influence the quality of life for individuals (Collins andet.al., 2011). Taking a specific environment, city park has been taken into consideration becauseout of all the hectic life during the day, people mostly comes there to have some quality of timein silent atmosphere. Individuals sees the natural beauty accompanied with different birds andsmall creatures.Furthermore, the ecosystem services has been characterised into different four segmentsand these are provisioning, regulating, habitual and cultural. Provisioning comprises of productswhich are obtained from ecosystem in form of fresh water, woof, food, fiber, medicines, etc.Regulatory services on the other side states the benefits which have generally been obtained fromthe regulation of ecosystem processes in form of climatic regulations, purification of water,waste management, etc. There are habitat services which are only required for migratory speciesand cultural at last includes different sort of non-material benefits which population receive fromecosystem. Cultural services includes spiritual and historical, recreational experiences, scienceand education etc. Ecotourism, outdoor sports and recreation is also a important part ofecosystem (Kareiva, 2011).Certain discussions has also been made relation to the different concept of culturalecosystem services as whether they can be operated in different situations or not. However, thereexist some fundamental critiques relating to the concept of cultural ecosystem and these critiqueshave been developed on the basis of following arguments:Pivotal cultural values which is attached to natural environment usually relies on area ofsome unique character which cannot be found or addressed easily. There need to be somesort of scientific parameters which is essential in defining ecological structures as well asthe functions (Atkins and et.al., 2011).These cultural values are usually not resulted from properties which are given by theecosystems but are developed in significant manner so that cultural framework providesa good symbolic experience.
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REFERENCESJournals and Books Atkins, J.P. and et.al., 2011. Management of the marine environment: integrating ecosystemservices and societal benefits with the DPSIR framework in a systems approach.Marinepollution bulletin. 62(2). pp. 215-226.Collins, S.L. and et.al., 2011. An integrated conceptual framework for long‐term social–ecological research.Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 9(6), pp. 351-357.Kareiva, P., 2011.Natural capital: theory and practice of mapping ecosystem services. OxfordUniversity Press.4
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