| Provisioning | Regulating | Cultural |
|---|
| Food Production | Spread of diseases | Natural landscapes |
| Decreased fish production | Increased risk of vector-bone diseases | Cultural loss |
| Decreased agricultural yield | | Tourism Loss |
Ecosystem Services §
- Natural environment serving us in different ways
- Provisioning:
- Any type of benefit to people that can be extracted from nature
- Regulating:
- Benefits obtained from ecosystem processes that moderate natural phenomena
- Cultural:
- Stuff that shape our life
Impacts on Provisioning Services §
- Climate Change cause physical changes to the environment
- Affects its ability to provide resources for food production
- Impact people’s economic livelihoods and food security
Reduced Fish Production §
Reduce Agricultural Yield §
- More severe or frequent extreme weather events, difficult for crops to survive
- Food production is then reduced
- Causes the food prices to increase
- Affects the poor
- Large portion of their income is spent on food
- Higher possibility of malnutrition and starvation
- Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia most vulnerable to food insecurity
Impact on Regulating Services §
- Causes physical changes to the environment affecting its ability to regulate the spread of diseases - especially vector-bone diseases
- Create conductive environments for vectors such as mosquitoes and ticks to thrive and breed
- This allows mosquitoes to move to higher latitudes and altitudes
- Exposes more areas to vector-borne diseases
- Increased risk of disease
- People fall more sick and even die
- Resulted in 700000 deaths annually (Zika)
- Affects work productivity
- Increased national healthcare costs
- affecting economic growth
Impacts on Cultural Services §
- Intangible benefits people obtain from ecosystems
- Sense of wellbeing
- Sense of place
- recreational and tourism opportunities
- etc.
- May improve physical and mental nealth
- Build social belonging and group identity
- Provide economic benefit through tourism revenue
- Can change natural landscapes
- Changes traditional practices
- Leads to cultural loss
- reduce tourism appeal
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- Example: Arctic region
- melting ice affects everyday cultural practices
- traditional practices are disrupted
- Can provide more tourism opportunities
- Example: Maldives
- Threatened by sea level riser and coral bleaching
- Sea level rise makes part uninhabitable
- Low-lying areas are submerged
- Coral bleaching reduces tourism appeal
- Reduction in tourist revenue