Quantifying ecosystem services trade-offs from agricultural practices

Ecological Economics

Volumn 102, Issue , 2014, Pages 147-157

  Kragt, Marit E ^a,b   Robertson, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Best management practices; Ecosystem services; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899703359     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.04.001     Document Type: Article

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