Ecosystem services as a boundary object for sustainability

Ecological Economics

Volumn 103, Issue , 2014, Pages 29-37

  Abson, D J ^a   von Wehrden, H ^a   Baumgartner S ^a   Fischer, J ^a   Hanspach, J ^a   Hardtle W ^a   Heinrichs, H ^a   Klein, A M ^a   Lang, D J ^a   Martens, P ^a,b   Walmsley, D ^a  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bibliographic analysis; Ecosystem services; Ethics; Multivariate statistics; Normative knowledge; Sustainability; Systems knowledge; Transformative knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899829256     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.04.012     Document Type: Short Survey

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