Tourism Ecology Material

TOURISM ECOLOGY MATERIAL 1. What are the environmental services that can be described? 1) Provision Services • There are various food sources available in the place, both biological and animal. • There is fresh water in the place that can be used for irrigation of agriculture, plantations or for consumption by the community. • Available fiber, fuel and others that can come from animals or are found in the forest, plants as the basis for medicine and biochemistry and ornamental species. 2) Regulation Services • Plants as air quality regulators. • As a zone that can reduce the effects of natural hazards, such as floods and others, the environment here can absorb some of the causes of impacts and reduce their effects. • Plants can provide services in water treatment, tree roots, wetlands that can hold water and clean it from various types of pollutants that are hazardous to health, this can happen because of the activity of microorganisms in the environment so that dangerous pathogens can be eliminated. • A well-maintained environment so that its biodiversity has the possibility of being more resistant to climate change, culture and ecosystems. • A healthy environment can control the growth of parasites that are harmful to the environment and health, especially in tropical and subtropical areas, this is because various diseases that will arise can be controlled biologically through various types of predatory fungi that live in other organisms. 3) Cultural Services • A beautiful and orderly environment has its own aesthetic value that makes the place beautiful • With the natural beauty of the place, this place can be used as a destination for recreation for some groups of tourists because it has aesthetic value and a supportive atmosphere. • The rural environment can be used by people as inspiration for works of art, music, architecture and a tradition 4) Supporting Services • Nutrient cycle, namely the movement of nutrients through an ecosystem from a biotic and abiotic process, a green environment inhabited by many plants and animals can be said to be a vast storage warehouse for nutrients, nutrients are absorbed by organisms and then transferred from one organism to another, the nutrients are decomposed and then recycled by other organisms so that they release nutrients into the surrounding environment.Biologically mediated habitat, namely habitat offered by living ecosystem structures to other organisms, such as green land, forests or trees that are temporary homes for many species, thus helping in the provision of goods and services from an ecosystem, they also function as a source of food and shelter from predators. • Supporters in primary production, production of organic matter, namely chemically bound energy produced from the processes of photosynthesis and chemosynthesis. The organic matter is produced from primary producers and then produces the oxygen needed to support animals and humans. 2. How are they related? The relationship that occurs here is a dynamic reciprocal relationship in a living environment, occurring between animals, plants, non-living environments and microorganisms. 3. Is there a conflict of interest in the use of existing environmental services? In the picture I can not identify any conflict that occurs in the place, but if discussing the conflict that can occur in the environment there may be some, such as the occurrence of conflict in the use of a land, this can occur because of weak regulations in the place. Excessive use of an environmental service such as natural resources, so that it can disrupt other environmental services because environmental services themselves have a dynamic reciprocal relationship. 4. What are the impacts of existing conflicts of interest that reduce the benefits of these environmental services? Environmental services have a dynamic reciprocal relationship, so if one part is involved in a conflict such as excessive use of natural resources (exploitation) it will have an impact on other areas such as food provision will be reduced because its cultivation sources are few, raw material production will no longer be sustainable, clean water will be reduced due to the lack of plants that can provide services in water processing, tree roots, wetlands that can hold water and clean it from various types of pollutants that are harmful to health. The environment will be susceptible to disease due to the reduction in microorganisms that control the growth of parasites that are harmful to the environment and health, especially in tropical and subtropical areas, this is partly because the various diseases that will arise can be controlled biologically through various types of predatory fungi that live on other organisms. Reduced biodiversity and others, all of this has a negative impact on both the environment and humans. 5. How can climate change affect environmental services? Climate change can affect water quality, although in global climate change tends to make the intensity of rain high, but water has the potential not to be absorbed into the ground so that it flows directly into the sea so that the positive impact of water for animals, plants, and humans cannot be felt. Climate can also threaten the extinction of living things, because the habitat which is one of the environmental services tends to be damaged as a result of human activities.