Ecosystem services and hydroelectricity in Central America: Modelling service flows with fuzzy logic and expert knowledge

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 393-404

  Locatelli, Bruno ^a,b   Imbach, Pablo ^c   Vignola, Raffaele ^c,d   Metzger, Marc J ^e   Hidalgo, Efraín José Leguía ^c,f  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^c CATIE   (Costa Rica)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES DE LA AMAZONÍA PERUANA   (Peru)

Author keywords

Forest; Hydroenergy; Hydrology; Landscape; Watershed services

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958059272     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-010-0149-x     Document Type: Article

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