L. 23 - Healthy Planet = Healthy People Flashcards
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L.O.
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- What does biodiversity do for you?
- Explore how a functional biosphere is needed for a strong economy
- Explain Planetary Health and its significance
- Describe what role can you play in changing the future?
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Nature
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- Water we drink and air we breathe
- intact ecosystems reduce CO2 protecting climate change
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Impacts of Food production
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Biodiversity pushed away from farms due to food production
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Ecosystems
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- Interconnected communities with species interactions, dynamics and flows
- Food chains
- Are the basis of life and Australias natural capital
- Australian ecosystems are in a poor state and continue to deteriate
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Threatened organisms
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- Plants have 112 threatened species with deteriating threatened index
- Mammals have a downward trend in threatened mammal index
- Birds have a downward trend too in 50 threatened species
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Conservation responses most beneficial to threatened species
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- Retain and restore habitat
- Manage invasive species
- Manage fire
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Economics of Australias ecosystems
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- Ecosystems produce just as much capital than produce
- Land produces much higher capital than energy and minerals
- From economic view it is not worth logging and deforesting native timber ecosystems as it brings in the least amount of capital, whilst also threatening native species, our water, food and CO2 management
- There are 17 sustainable goals, having a biosphere is fundamental to all
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Biosphere
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Biosphere => Society => Economy
Biosphere:
- Life, climate, water sanitation
Society:
- People and equity
- Depends on biosphere
Economy:
- Depends on society
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Ecologists
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- Record vital signs
- Diagnose problems, risks and changes
- Treatments for remediation and restoration
- Advocate for ecosystem health
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Long term research
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- Monitoring provides trusted and readily available data
- Understand ecosystems as complex systems
- Tell story of biodiversity and environmental change
- Identify drivers of change
