Human health as an ecosystem service: A conceptual framework

Karen Levy; Gretchen Daily; Samuel S. Myers

doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-0633-5_14

Human health as an ecosystem service: A conceptual framework

Karen Levy, Gretchen Daily, Samuel S. Myers

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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).

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Integrating Ecology and Poverty Reduction
Subtitle of host publication	Ecological Dimensions
Publisher	Springer New York
Pages	231-251
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Electronic)	9781441906335
ISBN (Print)	1441906320, 9781441906328
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0633-5_14
State	Published - Aug 1 2013
Externally published	Yes

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