The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6630, 1997, Pages 253-260

  Costanza, Robert ^a,b   D'Arge, Ralph ^c   De Groot, Rudolf ^d   Farber, Stephen ^e   Grasso, Monica ^b   Hannon, Bruce ^f   Limburg, Karin ^g,n   Naeem, Shahid ^h   O'Neill, Robert V ⁱ   Paruelo, Jose ^j   Raskin, Robert G ^k   Sutton, Paul ^l   Van Den Belt, Marjan ^m  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^g CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

ⁱ OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^k CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^m Ecol Econ Res and Applications   (United States)

ⁿ STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ECONOMIC EVALUATION; ECONOMIC VALUE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; ECOSYSTEMS SERVICES; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; GLOBAL STUDY; NATURAL CAPITAL;

EID: 0030618171     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/387253a0     Document Type: Article

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