Environment why Consider Environment in Recovery

ENVIRONMENT

Why Consider Environment in Recovery

• Why Consider Environment in Recovery

• Humans rely on the productive services of ecosystems to sustain life and livelihoods. Poor and marginalized people often are more directly dependent on ecosystem services.
• Environmental degradation diminishes an ecosystem’s capacity to provide resources critical to human life and livelihoods.
• Environmental degradation leads to an increase in the frequency and intensity of natural disasters, and exacerbates the impacts of such disasters.
• Natural disasters weaken already strained ecosystems.
• Examples: Sand dunes in Tamil Nadu, Haiti, Mississippi delta