Biodiversity, resilience and the control of ecological-economic systems: The case of fire-driven rangelands

Ecological Economics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 73-83

  Perrings, Charles ^a   Walker, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; RANGELAND; RESILIENCE LOSS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0030620150     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8009(97)00565-X     Document Type: Article

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