Ecosystem Services
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Ecosystem services are the many and varied benefits that humans freely gain from the natural environment and from properly-functioning ecosystems.
Denfinition
Per the 2006 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), ecosystem services are "the benefits people obtain from ecosystems".
Four categories
Supporting services
- These services make it possible for the ecosystems to provide services such as food supply, flood regulation, and water purification.
Provisioning services
- Food, Materials, Water, Energy...
Provisioning services
- carbon sequestration and climate regulation
- waste decomposition
- purification of water and air
Cultural services
- Move, Outdoor sport...