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5. Impact assessment world café: Ecosystem services

Understand the importance of ecosystem services, biodiversity, and impacts on environment for environmental compliance. Learn how ecosystem functions and services benefit humans and other species, from regulating and provisioning services to supporting services necessary for all others. Strengthen the environmental impact assessment (EIA) process through ecosystem service reviews.

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5. Impact assessment world café: Ecosystem services

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  1. 5. Impact assessment world café: Ecosystem services Location  Month Year

  2. Definitions • Ecosystem: The biotic community and its abiotic environment • Species • Physical and chemical characteristics • Ecosystem Function: Processes resulting from species interactions (e.g., primary production) • These processes result in goods and services that benefit humans (or any other species) Why Environmental Compliance Matters

  3. Ecosystem services The benefits people derive from ecosystems regulating Services Benefits from the regulation of ecosystem processes Provisioning Services Products obtained from ecosystems cultural Services Nonmaterial benefits of ecosystems Food, water, fish, fuels, timber, fiber, etc. Spiritual, aesthetic, and recreational benefits Flood protection, purification of air and water, waste absorption, disease control, and climate regulation Supporting Services Services necessary for the production of all other ecosystem services Soil formation, production of oxygen, crop pollination, carbon sequestration, photosynthesis, and nutrient cycling World Café

  4. Importance • Ecosystem function depends on species and physical/chemical characteristics • Biodiversity • Pollution • Land use • Climate • Understanding dependencies and impacts on ecosystem services is critical to the environmental impact assessment (EIA) process and environmentally sound development • An ecosystem service review can strengthen EIA process by drawing out important trade-offs worthy of consideration World Café

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