I. Read chapter 2 in Selman, 2012 , and discuss the concepts of “Climate change adaptation v. climate change mitigation” (understand the basic difference between them) and “Virtuous and vicious circles in the landscape. How and/or why these concepts are important
2. Using a Beach located in Palm Beach Florida as the landscape hypothesize about the suite of important landscape services for the whole landscape. What are the provisioning services that are evident? And so forth. Hypothesize if there would be market driven (i.e. monetized) evidence of that service. Be sure to remember the lessons from before and consider the landscape, not from one perspective (i.e. vacationer) or sector (i.e. water supply) but from a broad range of services. Be as specific as you can. Is there something you value about the landscape that is missing from the list of landscape services presented in Selman’s (2012) chapter 2?
3. A logical argument contends that we cannot meaningfully discuss landscape sustainability at any scale without a broad accounting of a landscapes services. But then Setten and her colleagues argue, “that we cannot rely on economics to single- handedly reverse the degradation of ecosystems or design sustainable landscape management.” Do you support either of these statements? How does the identification of landscape services help or hinder sustainable landscape management? What additional considerations would you like to include?
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