A spatially explicit and quantitative vulnerability assessment of ecosystem service change in Europe

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 91-107

  Metzger, Marc J ^a,c   Schröter, Dagmar ^b   Leemans, Rik ^a   Cramer, Wolfgang ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Ecosystem services; Europe; Global change; Vulnerability assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 51849096945     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-008-0044-x     Document Type: Article

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