Healthy Trees, Healthy Cities. Ecosystem Services - TEEB. This tables presents the different categories of ecosytem services that ecosystems provide. Provisioning Services are ecosystem services that describe the material or energy outputs from ecosystems. They include food, water and other resources. Food: Ecosystems provide the conditions for growing food. Food comes principally from managed agro-ecosystems but marine and freshwater systems or forests also provide food for human consumption. Wild foods from forests are often underestimated. Raw materials: Ecosystems provide a great diversity of materials for construction and fuel including wood, biofuels and plant oils that are directly derived from wild and cultivated plant species.
Fresh water: Ecosystems play a vital role in the global hydrological cycle, as they regulate the flow and purification of water. Medicinal resources: Ecosystems and biodiversity provide many plants used as traditional medicines as well as providing the raw materials for the pharmaceutical industry. SOS Explorer | Science On a Sphere | NOAA. SOS Explorer™ uses the NOAA-developed Terraviz™ visualization engine to create an interactive Earth for a flat screen display including those projected on walls, computers, and large displays, providing teachers, students, and the public access to a library of selected Science On a Sphere® datasets and movies. The visualizations show information provided by satellites, ground observations and computer models and rapidly animate through real-time global data. In addition, tools included in the application allow users to zoom into, probe, and graph the data, as well as add supplementary material including websites, videos, pictures, and placemarks.
In order to make the product more accessible for teachers, lesson plans and pre-programmed tours through standards-relevant topics are provided. Watch a video to learn more about NOAA's SOS Explorer. GLISPA Impact Dashboard. Should-you-fear-the-pizzly-bear. WPA National Park Serigraphed Posters | Ranger Doug's Enterprises. Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) — DIVERSITAS. The Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted the Nagoya Protocol at its tenth meeting on 29 October 2010 in Nagoya, Japan. The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization of the Convention on Biological Diversity (in short, Access and Benefit-sharing-ABS) aims at regulating the access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits derived from their utilisation. The fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilisation of genetic resources is one of the three objectives of the CBD.
More on the Nagoya Protocol. Nagoya Protocol text. Project on Access and Benefit-sharing in Latin America and the Caribbean: A science-policy dialogue for academic research The project focuses on academic research in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and the implications of ABS policies and regulations. Activities: Partner project. Stockholm Resilience Centre. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. DSIRE: Energy Efficiency Rebates. Miradi.
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