A. Use for your final topic to think about how the ecosystem services framework from the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment can help understand your issue.

B. For this assignment, take the diagram on p7 of the MA Living Beyond Our Mean?s and? use it to describe (~1.5 pages) the direct and indirect drivers of change for your issue, and make sure to link the ecosystem services with direct and indirect drivers of change, and constituents of human well-being. You can use the three different geographic scales or focus on one. (5 pts)

C. Now, pretend you are a neoclassical (free-market or environmental economist), new institutional (transaction cost or ecological), and institutional economist—each in turn. Being that economist, write up some of the solutions each school of economic theory might develop (~1.5 pages). If your topic is water pollution, a neoclassical economist might say “put a tax on pollution”, a new institutionalist might say “define who’s responsible for cleaning up the pollution”, and an institutionalist might say, “we need to focus on changing consumer behavior to reduce demand for pollution-causing products.” It may be that each school of thought may select the same solution, but for different reasons. (5 pts)