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Accounting for Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs in Land Use Planning with PEWI

This lesson plan asks students to imagine themselves as a city planning commission tasked with developing a land-use plan with specific ecosystem services in mind.  The lesson includes two short exercises that utilize PEWI and recommended discussion questions that help students understand ecosystem services tradeoffs. This lesson has been successfully used with undergraduate and graduate students, and could be adapted for use with adult learners.

Download Land-use Planning Exercise.docx (16 KB).