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Environmental Issues & Human Dimensions . Should Rt 53 Extension be built? . Should Rt 53 Extension be built? . What services or goods do these ecosystems provide? . Provisioning Regulating Supporting Cultural Anthropocentric or Biocentric? LULU NIMBY
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What services or goods do these ecosystems provide? • Provisioning • Regulating • Supporting • Cultural Anthropocentric or Biocentric? LULU NIMBY Intrinsic or Inherent value
Ecosystem services • Regulating controls the earth through ecosystem processes (climate, floods, disease) • Supporting: services that support life( nutrient cycling, oxygen production, soil formation) • Cultural: non-material goods for developing societies(educational, aesthetic, spiritual) • Provisioning: goods from the ecosystem ( timber, genetic, habitats)
Type I E.I. “ Plastic or paper” • Common ground: Values and technology • Conserve resources • Technology is not questioned • Conflict: Belief • Ban all plastic shopping bags • Charge consumers for plastic bags
Type II E.I. How to use the land.” • Common ground in Beliefs and Technology • Conflict in Values • Canoeing or jet ski.
Type III E.I. “Hunting” • Common Ground • Technology in managing wildlife • Conflict Belief • Wildlife is owned by the public • Wildlife is owned by whose land its on • Conflict Value • Wildlife has intrinsic value • My family will be attacked
Type IV E.I. “Global warming.” • Conflict belief: • Humans do/not cause global warming. • Conflict values: • Environment/economy • Conflict Technology • Models are not accurate
Environmental Science Issues • Habitat loss Ozone Depletion • Urban sprawl Desertification • Fracking Global climate change • Lead poisoning Acid Deposition • Cultural eutrophication Overpopulation • Ozone Pollution Invasive species