Measurement of the natural capital stock: Conceptual foundations and preliminary empirics

Sustainable Development Indicators in Ecological Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 209-220

  England, Richard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

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