Can ecosystem services lead ecology on a transdisciplinary pathway?

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 501-511

  Reyers, Belinda ^a   Roux, Dirk J ^b   O'Farrell, Patrick J ^a  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

complex systems; interdisciplinary; norms and values; social ecological

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE FRAMEWORK; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; FUTURE DIRECTIONS; HUMAN SOCIETY; INTERDISCIPLINARY; NORMS AND VALUES; POTENTIAL CONSTRAINTS; RESOURCE USE; SOCIAL PROCESS; SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL; SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; TRANSDISCIPLINARITY;

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; LITERATURE REVIEW;

EID: 79951774984     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: 14694387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892910000846     Document Type: Article

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