Course:ECON371/UBCO2011WT1/GROUP4

Group 4 - Ecosystem Services

Andrew Barton, Trang Hoang, Stefan LaForge, Lindsay Leroux

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Ecosystem Services are things that nature does for us and we obtain a benefit. These are things like bees pollinating fruit trees and wetlands purifying water. While ecosystem services can be viewed as a resource, pollution and habitat destruction can degrade these systems to a point where they are no longer functional. This is the aspect that we will focus on.

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• Article 1 -- Major seafood processor agrees to civil penalty
• Article 2 -- Oil From Ship Grounded off New Zealand Reaches Shore
• Article 3 -- Fallout from Pollution on the Ogeechee River
• Article 4 -- Community sues over pollution in Niger Delta
• Article 5 -- Some People Think It’s Just Dirt
• Article 6 -- Great Lakes faces stress from agricultural runoff
• Article 7 -- The Caltrans paid for polluting Mountain Lake
• Article 8 -- UAE pushes for action on emissions