Valuing biodiversity and ecosystem services: Why put economic values on nature?

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 334, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 469-482

  Salles, Jean Michel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Economic theory; Ecosystem services; Evaluation; Methods

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; ECONOMIC THEORY; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; POLICY APPROACH; VALUATION;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HUMAN; MARKET; NONHUMAN; POLICY; POLITICS; PRESERVATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WELLBEING;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HUMANS; NATURE; PUBLIC POLICY;

EID: 79958021178     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: 17683238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2011.03.008     Document Type: Article

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