Ecosystem services and environmental decision making: Seeking order in complexity

Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 214-230

  Apitz, Sabine E ^a  

^a SEA Environmental Decisions   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecosystem Regional Assessment (EcoRegA); Ecosystem Response Assessment (EcoResA); Ecosystem service assessment; Ecosystem service decision cascade; Ecosystem service paradigm

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880446292     PISSN: 15513793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ieam.1389     Document Type: Article

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