The document discusses recovery efforts for the Kitakami River ecosystem in Japan after it was impacted by a tsunami.
The main problem is the tsunami, which brought salt, chemicals, and killed many animals. This disrupted breeding cycles and caused a loss of biodiversity. Sub-problems include salt/chemical contaminants poisoning the river and reducing oxygen levels, and loss of animal populations disrupting reproduction.
Proposed solutions are to temporarily restrict fishing/mining to allow animal populations to recover and establish a marine protected area that protects habitat while allowing sustainable fishing. A protected area is identified as having more overall positive impact through restoration and limiting negative human activities.
The document discusses recovery efforts for the Kitakami River ecosystem in Japan after it was impacted by a tsunami.
The main problem is the tsunami, which brought salt, chemicals, and killed many animals. This disrupted breeding cycles and caused a loss of biodiversity. Sub-problems include salt/chemical contaminants poisoning the river and reducing oxygen levels, and loss of animal populations disrupting reproduction.
Proposed solutions are to temporarily restrict fishing/mining to allow animal populations to recover and establish a marine protected area that protects habitat while allowing sustainable fishing. A protected area is identified as having more overall positive impact through restoration and limiting negative human activities.
The document discusses recovery efforts for the Kitakami River ecosystem in Japan after it was impacted by a tsunami.
The main problem is the tsunami, which brought salt, chemicals, and killed many animals. This disrupted breeding cycles and caused a loss of biodiversity. Sub-problems include salt/chemical contaminants poisoning the river and reducing oxygen levels, and loss of animal populations disrupting reproduction.
Proposed solutions are to temporarily restrict fishing/mining to allow animal populations to recover and establish a marine protected area that protects habitat while allowing sustainable fishing. A protected area is identified as having more overall positive impact through restoration and limiting negative human activities.
The document discusses recovery efforts for the Kitakami River ecosystem in Japan after it was impacted by a tsunami.
The main problem is the tsunami, which brought salt, chemicals, and killed many animals. This disrupted breeding cycles and caused a loss of biodiversity. Sub-problems include salt/chemical contaminants poisoning the river and reducing oxygen levels, and loss of animal populations disrupting reproduction.
Proposed solutions are to temporarily restrict fishing/mining to allow animal populations to recover and establish a marine protected area that protects habitat while allowing sustainable fishing. A protected area is identified as having more overall positive impact through restoration and limiting negative human activities.
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Section 1:
Select the Kitakami River region, the Abukuma Highlands, or Japan's
coastal habitat as the ecosystem you want to help with recovery. List the main problem faced by this ecosystem as described in the lesson. Then list at least two sub-problems that need to be considered to solve the main problem. List the sub- problems in order of most to least important. In the rationale column, explain why you placed your sub-problems in the order you selected. Kitakami River
Main Problem Sub-Problems Rationale
Tsunami Salt and chemical The tsunami waves contaminants brought along chemical materials from the city to the river, thus it had an effect on the living ecosystem due to the lack of oxygen. Loss of biodiversity Because of the and animal amount of population killed animals in the river, it could have an effect on disruptive reproductive and migratory cycles of many species, especially it happen during spawning season.
Section 2: Conduct internet research on your selected ecosystem to help you
generate a list of three criteria and two constraints. Your criteria and constraints should consider relevant factors to the problem, such as costs, reliability, safety (to humans and wildlife), human needs, environmental impact, local biodiversity, and the aesthetics of the area. List the criteria in order of most to least important and assign each to a related sub-problem. In the rationale column, explain why you placed your criteria in the order you selected.
Constraints Feed all the animals under the given budget Completely regain back all of the species that did survive
Which Sub-Problems does this criteria
Criteria Rationale address? Food Food Loss of biodiversity and animal population supply supplies must be placed in multiple regions of the river in order for the remaining animals to survive. This way it can prevent the continuation of biodiversity loss.
Waste The waste Salt and chemical contaminants
reduction that the tsunami carried along with it, Is the main problem of the animals dying, which also mainly came from chemical contaminan ts. Animal To improve Loss of biodiversity and animal population breeding the population of the animals, breeding should be done to recover the losses they gained.
Section 3: For at least one of the sub-problems, propose two solutions based on the information from the lesson and your additional research. In the rationale column, explain how your solution restores the stability and biodiversity of your selected ecosystem.
Sub-Problem Proposed Solutions Rationale
Loss of biodiversity and Temporarily restrict the practice If fishing and sand animal population of fishing and sand mining along mining still remains the river. to be a practice that continues to be done, then the animal population of fishes won’t have the chance to breed and increase itself. Also, it would just be disruptive to the reproductive cycles of species.
Manage a Marine protected area This way the river
(MPA) can be protected by a highly secured region where there are restrictions. It is a high level focus of food supplies, breeding and protection of habitat. However, it still does support sustainable fishing.
Section 4: Answer the following analysis questions about your proposed solutions. 1. Describe the ways your proposed solutions decrease the negative effects of habitat destruction and human activity on your selected ecosystem. By stopping the practice of fishing in that river area, it can restrict the abundance of species from reducing in population. If fishing stops, then it allows the animals to restart their reproductive cycle to increase their own species population.
2. Describe the costs, safety, and reliability of your proposed solutions, as well as any social, cultural, and environmental impacts your solutions address. To temporarily restrict fishing at the area would require government-approved projects. There would be consequences that would be a dead end in food resources of seafood from the river.
3. Evaluate your proposed solutions for their impact on overall environmental
stability and changes. Which solution has more impact? Explain your reasoning for picking one solution over another. Think that managing the river as a Marine Protected Area would overall sustain the problems that occur. It patrols the region to restore the productivity of the marine life through limiting tourism and only supporting sustainable fishing to continue generating income. It can be widely purposeful in the level of protection, restriction on human uses and legal authorities.
4. How could you refine one of your proposed solutions to further reduce environmental impact and loss of biodiversity while also addressing human needs? By using a protected area, it may allow ecosystems to recover and reestablish after the effect of natural impact. Fostering a healthy marine ecosystem can lead to increased seafood production.
