GEOG 3ER3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Northern Spotted Owl, Endangered Species, Rainforest
6 Apr 2013
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Environmental goods and services not traded on market to reach a value. Effects on human health and enjoyment, and damage to vegetation, animals, and materials. Id affected categories: causal relationships, estimate responses toward averting or mitigating portion of damage, convert to $ The study of patterns, causes, and effects of heath and disease conditions in a defined population. Types of values: use value, direct use of environmental resource -> pollution can cause it to lose value. Fish, water, timber: option value, value people place on the future ability to use resource -> reflects desire to preserve. Fish still in water: non-use value, people willing to pay for improving or preserving what they will never use. Total willingness to pay = twp = use value + option value + non-use value. 1991 new timber sales banned in oregon, washington, and california to protect them. Total owl habitat decreased since logging ramped in bc.
