Modeling the production of multiple ecosystem services from agricultural and forest landscapes in Rhode Island

Agricultural and Resource Economics Review

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 251-274

  Liu, Tingting ^a   Merrill, Nathaniel H ^a   Gold, Arthur J ^a   Kellogg, Dorothy Q ^a   Uchida, Emi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ecosystem services; Land use change; SWAT; Tradeoff analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878864031     PISSN: 10682805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1068280500007711     Document Type: Article

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