Research progress on trade-offs and synergies of ecosystem services: An overview

Shengtai Xuebao/ Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 32, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 5219-5229

  Li, Peng ^a,b   Jiang, Luguang ^a   Feng, Zhiming ^a   Yu, Xiubo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Ecosystem services; Spatial scale; Stakeholders; Synergies; Temporal scale; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LITERATURE REVIEW; OPTIMIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STAKEHOLDER; SYNERGISM; TRADE-OFF; WELFARE REFORM;

EID: 84866503206     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5846/stxb201109161360     Document Type: Article

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