Miscellaneous
Which of the following is not one of the framings of natural resource management and conservation? A. Nature for itself B. People for nature C. Nature for people or D. Nature despite people
B. People for nature
Name one type of capital other than natural capital.
Human capital, built capital, built capital, social or cultural capital, financial capital
Which of the following would be considered a public good? A. Netflix B. Clothing C. Air
C. Air
Which of the following is an example of non-consumptive indirect use? A. Food production B. Recreation or C. Water purification
Water purification
Contingent valuation is a revealed preference approach. T/F
False
Which of the following is NOT a supporting ecosystem service. A. Pest mitigation, B. Habitat, C. Nutrient cycling, D. Primary production, E. Water cycling
B. Pest mitigation
Reminder: Supporting ES are the natural processes that maintain the other ES. Regulating ES are the benefits obtained from an ecosystem's control/regulation of natural processes.
What type of spatial flow is the ecosystem service of pollination? A. Proximal Directional, B. Proximal Omni-directional, or C. In-situ
B. Proximal omni-directional
What are the two main characteristics of a private good? (hint: if you add "non" to the front of each of these characteristics, you describe a public good)
Rival and excludable
Non-rival means that my consumption of a good does not affect your ability to also consume the good.
Non-excludable means that the seller of a good does not have a way to exclude those who do not pay for the good from enjoying it.
What is the difference between a held value and an assigned value?
Held values are principles or virtues that people hold, such as love, respect, and life. Assigned values are values that people place on things in their life, such as the value of their home or value they place on a natural place (can be monetary or non-monetary)
If I send a survey to the CSU student body on the ecosystem service of water recreation provided by the Poudre River is this a stated preference approach or revealed preference approach?
Stated preference (specifically contingent valuation)
What was the name of the report that led to the ecosystem services framework?
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
What type of spatial categorization is demand for carbon sequestration? A. In situ B. Local proximal C. Directional flow related or D. Global non-proximal
Global non-proximal
True or false: Economic valuation can be used to measure the total or marginal value of a good or service
True
What are the two types of anthropocentric value?
Instrumental and relational
The approach of participatory mapping to measure sociocultural values would be considered as which of the following approaches: A. monetary stated preference B. Monetary revealed preference C. Non-monetary state preference or D. Non-monetary revealed preference
C. Non-monetary stated preference approach
Prairie dogs face threats from development on land they depend on for habitat. People are moving into these lands more and more as population increases. In this example, what is a direct driver and what is an indirect driver?
Direct: habitat destruction from land developed
Indirect: population growth
For the ecosystem service of recreation, what would might go in the "benefits" box of the cascade diagram?
mental or physical well-being; sense of identity, etc
People/countries who do not make efforts to reduce carbon emissions or perform carbon sequestration activities free ride on others in the world who do take those measures.
Define bequest value
Value a person derives from preserving an environmental amenity for use by future generations.
Name an example of a monetary valuation method you could use to measure the non-use values of Colorado's state parks?
If you are a farmer and make efforts to increase provision of the ES of water purification on your land but this decreases food production, what is this concept called?
Trade-off (when provision or supply of one ES leads to a decrease or decline in another ES)
If you were mapping the ES of storm surge mitigation provided by mangroves, 1. What would go in the left-most box of the cascade diagram? And 2. What would go in the right-most box?
1. Mangrove ecosystem
2. Safety/security, preservation of property, etc.
What do we call it when social costs exceed private costs?
Negative externality
Bonus: What do we call it when social benefits exceed private benefits?
What is the difference between relational value and intrinsic value?
What is a revealed preference approach you could use to measure the value of ecosystem services provided by Horsetooth Reservoir? What would you measure? (it can be non-monetary or monetary)
Examples include observing people's activities at the park, determining the number of passes sold in a year, how much money is spent traveling to the reservoir, how much is spent on passes, how much time is spent there.