Lecture 12/01/2017

Question 1

What are intangible ecosystem benefits?

Answer 1

benefits that cannot be (or are very difficult to be measured in monetary terms) - they ARE ecosystem services.

Question 2

substrates

Answer 2

a substance or layer that underlies something, or on which some process occurs, in particular.

Question 3

What are the 3 top examples of ecosystem services?

Answer 3

1. purification from water
2. bees pollination
3. nitrogen fixation

Question 4

If we all live in a snow globe, what’s the point of having boundaries?

Answer 4

Our ecosystems don’t have defined boundaries - but boundaries help us to define protection boundaries.

Question 5

What’s an effective way of pitching environmental protection policies?

Answer 5

We might have better luck pitching protections if we market them as being home to creatures - kinda humanize iconic species.

Question 6

Rivet popper hypothesis

Answer 6

Build in a safety factor

Question 7

Precautionary principle

Answer 7

Don’t act until you have all the information