Uploaded on 2018-12-17 by Blake Ledna

Module 8: ECOSYSTEMS SERVICES The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA 2005) defines ecosystem services as the benefits people obtain from ecosystems contributing to human well-being. Human well-being includes basic material for a good life, health, good social relations, security, and freedom of choice and action such as the opportunity to achieve what individual values doing and being. Ecosystems provide different services to the human-beings. This services can be divided into: Provisioning services ( “ecosystem services that describe the material or energy outputs from ecosystems” (TEEB)) Regulating services ( “ services that ecosystems provide by acting as regulators” (TEEB)) Habitat or Supporting services Cultural services St. Augustine, Florida has a host of ecosystems in its metropolitan region and outlying islands. Cultural services include many of the beaches in the region. Habit supporting services by being involved at the municipal level in dune rehabilitation, fishery protection, and sea turtle habitat maintenance. Regulating services are key in the municipal governance of the ecosystem in this region. Chemical usage of the islands for lawn care is strictly enforced and monitored. Lastly, provisional services are employed in construction industries in the area.