Perspectives on Ecosystem Based Management for Delivering Ecosystem Services with an Example from an Eighteen-Species Marine Model

International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 79-118

  Finnoff, David ^a   Gong, Min ^b   Tschirhart, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ecosystem based management; Ecosystem externality; Ecosystem services; Vector autoregression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856063588     PISSN: 19321465     EISSN: 19321473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1561/101.00000048     Document Type: Review

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