Mainstreaming ecosystem services through reformed European agricultural policies

Conservation Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 281-288

  Plieninger, Tobias ^a,b   Schleyer, Christian ^a   Schaich, Harald ^c   Ohnesorge, Bettina ^a   Gerdes, Holger ^d   Hernández Morcillo, Mónica ^a   Bieling, Claudia ^c  

^a Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d ECOLOGIC INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bundles; Common agricultural policy; Cross sectoral policies; Human well being; Nonmarket valuation; Site specificity; Spatial scales

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864836613     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00240.x     Document Type: Article

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