Rethinking biodiversity: From goods and services to "living with"

Conservation Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 154-161

  Turnhout, Esther ^a   Waterton, Claire ^b   Neves, Katja ^c   Buizer, Marleen ^d  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^d MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Discourse; Ecosystem services; Global governance; IPBES; Neoliberal conservation; Science policy interface

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878511256     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00307.x     Document Type: Review

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