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Human Health as an Ecosystem Service: A Conceptual Framework
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Levy, Karen Myers, Samuel S. |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | To live in good health and, in many ways, to live at all, people need a wide array of life-support benefits that derive from ecosystems. Collectively these are called ecosystem services, a term referring to the conditions and processes through which ecosystems, and the species that make them up, sustain and fulfill human life (Ehrlich and Ehrlich 1981; Daily 1997; Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005). These processes underpin the production of goods (such as seafood and timber), life-support functions (water purification and flood control), and life-fulfilling conditions (beauty and inspiration), as well as the preservation of options (such as genetic diversity for future use). |
| Starting Page | 231 |
| Ending Page | 251 |
| Page Count | 21 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4419-0633-5_14 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/bdg/pdfs_bdg/2013/fall/humanhealth/Levy2011-1.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0633-5_14 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
