Which goods and services are provided by coastline ecosystems?

Select one or more coastal geographical area(s) including areas of human activity (cities, ports) AND protected areas (natural reserves, protected lagoons, Natura 2000 areas, Ramsar sites, marine parks etc.).

Example of geographical areas: Biguglia lagoon (Corsica, France).

Print a detailed map of the selected geographical area(s) from internet or on an online map service.

The teacher introduces the main concepts on urbanization and the coastal artificialization helped with the O1 draft. Then, he/she presents ecosystem services using the definition on the United Nations Agriculture and Food Organization website [link 1] and provides to the students the list of ecosystem services available on the website [link 2].

The teacher split the class in groups of 4 persons and gives a map to each group, asking them to identify and list human activities pressures and protected natural areas on the identified geographical area.

The teacher asks to the 4-students groups to search on internet and list the ecosystem services provided by the protected natural area(s).

The teacher introduces the debate asking to the students to define which of these services can be useful to fight the human activities pressures identified previously.

Each group works on a presentation (paper or ppt) to expose its information research on the ecosystem services provided in the corresponding selected area.