Urban ecosystems and sustainable urban development-analysing and assessing interacting systems in the Stockholm region

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 763-782

  Mörtberg, Ulla ^a   Haas, Jan ^a   Zetterberg, Andreas ^a   Franklin, Joel P ^a   Jonsson, Daniel ^a   Deal, Brian ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ecosystem services; Interacting urban systems; Model integration; Urban development; Urban ecosystems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888380521     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-012-0270-3     Document Type: Article

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