Case Study → Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (Edexcel A-Level Geography): Revision Notes
📚 Revision Notes
Case Study → Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
| Context | ● The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA), 2001 studies ecosystems and reports on changes and likely environmental & human impacts ● The international collaboration helped popularise the 'ecosystem services' approach to biodiversity management ● The philosophy fits well w/ the capitalist values of the global economic system and is a pragmatic approach for the UN to have adopted and helped promote globally |
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| What happens | ● A financial value is calculated for threatening biomes and species, thereby strengthening the rationale for their preservation |