ECOSYSTEM SERVICE

Catalog description

Ecosystem services are the benefits that people obtain from ecosystems and utilizes a system level approach to examine the interactions between four services. The course will include discussion of nutrient recycling as a supporting service, food production as a provisioning service, carbon sequestration as a regulating service and education as a cultural service as well as how they fit together in a sustainable system. Students will learn through case studies of the application of conservation, restoration and market valuation approaches to protecting critical ecosystem processes. 001423