Measuring and understanding sustainability-enhancing processes in tropical coastal and marine social-ecological systems

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 300-308

  Glaser, Marion ^a   Christie, Patrick ^b   Diele, Karen ^a,c   Dsikowitzky, Larissa ^d   Ferse, Sebastian ^a   Nordhaus, Inga ^a   Schlüter, Achim ^a,e   Schwerdtner Mañez, Kathleen ^a,f   Wild, Christian ^a,g  

^a LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR TROPICAL MARINE RESEARCH ZMT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^f MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; HOT SPOT; POPULATION GROWTH; TROPICAL REGION;

EID: 84864040584     PISSN: 18773435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2012.05.004     Document Type: Review

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