Advantages of Ecosystem Services to Human Being
Nigam Rani
I.C. College of Home Science, CCS HAU, HISAR (125004), India.
Sheela Sangwan *
I.C. College of Home Science, CCS HAU, HISAR (125004), India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The review concentrating on the direct and indirect connection between elements of ecosystems services and human well-being and effect of disharmony between ecosystem and human well-being. Resources found from ecosystem are the benefits for human being and other habitants of environment. These consist like foodstuff, wood, and fiber for clothes. The human species, while buffered against environmental changes by culture and technology, is fundamentally dependent on the flow of ecosystem services. Association between human well being and ecosystem became a growing interest for researchers from past few decades. Ecosystem is a life support system for human species and all forms of life and viewed in the context of the health of the earth and its natural process of ecosystems. Ecosystem positively and negatively affects cognitive, emotional, social behavior, and physical health of an individual. Today it is a very big challenge for a community/society to maintain a balance in between functioning of ecosystems and use of natural resources. But in the name of economic growth, humans pay more stress on the environment by disturbing its natural functioning.
Keywords: Ecosystem, human well being, support system, natural resources, environmental stress