Course: SAT 110 Natural Resource Management

Reading and Multimedia Assignments

Reading Assignment 2
Reading Assignment 2

Human societies derive many essential goods from natural ecosystems, including seafood, game animals, fodder, fuelwood, timber, and pharmaceutical products. These goods represent important and familiar parts of the economy. What has been less appreciated until recently is that natural ecosystems also perform fundamental life-support services without which human civilizations would cease to thrive.

Credits

from Ecosystems Services: Benefits Supplied to Human Societies by Natural Ecosystems, provided by U.S. EPA, public domain

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