Uploaded on 2020-01-15 by saif alnuaimi
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 (MA 2005; The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) 2010). 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 To find out more information about these four types visit TEEB 1. Ecosystem services in your living area What ecosystem services do you have in and around your living area? Give at least one example for each of the four types of ecosystem services. Make clear in your answer where you can find the ecosystem service and what the ecosystem offers to your living area. To support your answers you are asked to provide one or more images for every example that describe