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Title: ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS


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ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS
  • pp 444 - 452

2
HUMAN RESOURCE USE
  • ecological (carbon) footprint how much we impact
    the environment
  • sustainability the ability to meet human needs

3
IMPORTANCE OF BIODIVERSITY
  • What happens if you remove a species?
  • Can lose biodiversity
  • Unbalance a food web
  • Areas already with low richness are most at risk

4
PROTECTING ECOSYSTEMS
  • Biodiversity hotspots regions with the highest
    diversity that are most in danger

5
FIELDS OF STUDY
  • Conservation biology identify, protect, and
    maintain natural areas at risk
  • Restoration biology rebuild the damaged
    ecosystems
  • Use bioindicators (species especially sensitive
    to change) as early warning signals of
    environmental problems

6
CASE STUDYSaving the whooping crane
7
GOVERNMENT LAWS
  • Debt-for-nature swap richer countries or private
    companies pay smaller/poorer countries for
    undeveloped land or education programs

8
PRIVATE EFFORTS
  • Ecotourism tourism and conservation biology
    working together

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MAINTENANCE OF BIODIVERSITY
  • utilitarian value economic values of
    biodiversity
  • nonutilitarian value life-forms have value
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