Ecological economics: Reintegrating the study of humans and nature

Ecological Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 978-990

  Costanza, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation error; Cultural vs. genetic evolution; Ecological economics; Ecological sustainability; Hierarchy of scales; History of ecology; Modeling as a consensus building tool; Modeling complex systems; Models, conceptual vs. Analytic; Natural capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001012668     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2269581     Document Type: Article

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