Ecosystem Services Lecture 2 - Kelvin

Question 1

What is the Ecosystem approach?

Answer 1

Provides a strategy for the intergrated management of land. water and living resources that promotes conservation and sustainable use in a equitable way.

Question 2

What are the key principles of the ecosystem approach?

Answer 2

1. Management within natural limits
2. Management for the long term
3. Management at the macro and micro scales.
4. Account for true value
5. Make trade-offs clear
6. Involve stakeholders in decisions

Question 3

What are the key concepts of ecosystem services?

Answer 3

1. If nobody benefits there’s no ecosystem service.
2. Ecosystem services are not the ecosystem thatprovided them. They are what the ecosystem does.
3. Ecosystem services can be one of these economic goods: private good, common-pool resource; toll or club good; and public good.