Ecosystems, ecological restoration, and economics: Does habitat or resource equivalency analysis mean other economic valuation methods are not needed?

Ambio

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 628-643

  Shaw, W Douglass ^a   Wlodarz, Marta ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental restoration; Habitat resource equivalency analysis; Valuation of resources

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COASTAL ZONE; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; TRADE-OFF; VALUATION;

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUROPEAN UNION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; EUROPEAN UNION; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84883823468     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-012-0351-9     Document Type: Review

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