Using ecosystem services in community- based landscape planning: Science is not ready to deliver

Landscape Ecology for Sustainable Environment and Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 77-101

  Opdam, Paul ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptive governance; Criteria for sustainability; Green infrastructure; Habitat networks; Knowledge application; Landscape change; Landscape services; Social ecological system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884818648     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6530-6_5     Document Type: Chapter

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