Cultural Services

• Define cultural service

  a non-material benefit that contributes to the development and cultural advancement of people
• FPO

  • Process: This includes how ecosystems play a role in local, national and global cultures. The building of knowledge and the spreading of ideas as well as the creativity from interactions with nature and providing spaces for recreation and spiritual traditions. The natural world has guided our cultural, intellectual, and social development by playing instrumental roles in culture, traditions and spiritual worlds 
  • Outcome: these cultural norms then influence how societies determine the provisioning services of the environment around them