New perspectives in ecosystem services science as instruments to understand environmental securities

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1639, 2014, Pages

  Villa, Ferdinando ^a   Voigt, Brian ^b   Erickson, Jon D ^b  

^a BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Beneficiaries; Ecosystem services; Food security; Modelling; Spatial flows; Water security

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENEFICIARIES; CATERING SERVICE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; FOOD SECURITY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; POPULATION GROWTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPATIAL FLOWS; TANZANIA; WATER SECURITY; WATER SUPPLY;

BENEFICIARIES; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; FOOD SECURITY; MODELLING; SPATIAL FLOWS; WATER SECURITY;

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; POPULATION GROWTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TANZANIA; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84894101654     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0286     Document Type: Article

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