Eco System
Gemma Alexander - AUG 6, 2020
https://earth911.com/business-policy/ecosystem-services-natures-gifts-that-help-us-thrive/
"How valuable is nature? A recent study of the economic value that could be created by protecting 30% of the world’s land as wilderness, which absorbs carbon from the atmosphere and provides biological diversity, found that the cost would be repaid by more than 500%.
Environmentalists understand that the natural world is intrinsically valuable and species have a right to exist separate from human needs. But many people disregard any argument for the value of wildlands that is not framed in terms of human benefit, and preferably in financial units. These people are often successful in defending environmental destruction as an economic necessity.
The concept of ecosystem services developed to describe the many tangible benefits of healthy ecosystems that economic analyses usually ignore. The new report, Protecting 30% of the planet for nature: costs, benefits and economic implications, is the first to combine scientific and economic assessments. "
What are Coastal Ecosystems?
https://medium.com/climate-conscious/the-essentials-of-coastal-ecosystem-conservation-b8c5a191de71