Please join us for a seminar on the non-market values of ecosystem services.

Are there ways humans value the natural world that cannot be quantified in the marketplace? In a November 2016 seminar, we considered recent efforts by environmental and natural resource practitioners to price ecosystem services so that their value might be weighed in economic decisions in the global market. This follow on seminar will consider the cultural, spiritual, aesthetical, and ethical values humans apply to ecosystem services, and how those values are factored into policy and management decisions affecting the world’s ecosystems.

This seminar with feature:

Frank Ettawageshik – Frank is Executive Director of the United Tribes of Michigan. He served for fourteen years as the Tribal Chairman of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, was instrumental in the adoption of the Tribal and First Nations Great Lakes Water Accord and United League of Indigenous Nations Treaty, and delivered the closing plenary on behalf of indigenous peoples at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP 21 in Paris as a delegate from the National Congress of American Indians.