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Abstract: Ecosystems generate a variety of goods and services, collectively
called ecosystem services, that sustain and fulfill human life. Climate change will affect
the quality, abundance, distribution, productivity and value of ecosystem services
throughout the Taunton River Watershed. This plan focuses on a subset of the watershed's
ecosystem services and examines each through the lens of ... read moreclimate and non-climate stressors,
vulnerabilities and equity and environmental justice issues. Economic data, where readily
available, are also presented in order to contextualize the value of the selected ecosystem
services and the impact, in terms of financial gains and losses, of healthy and impaired
ecosystems in the watershed. Adaptation recommendations are included in order to increase
the resilience of the river, and the physical resources that are connected to it, in light
of the changing social, physical and environmental conditions in the
watershed.
Thesis (M.A.)--Tufts University, 2012.
Submitted to the Dept. of Urban and Environmental Policy and
Planning.
Advisor: Ann Rappaport.
Committee: Scott Horsley.
Keyword: Climate change.read less
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