Ecosystem Service Assessments: Science or Pragmatism?

Ecosystem Services: Global Issues, Local Practices

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 157-165

  Jacobs, Sander ^a,b   Keune, Hans ^a,b,c,d   Vrebos, Dirk ^b   Beauchard, Olivier ^b   Villa, Ferdinando ^e,f   Meire, Patrick ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c Belgian Biodiversity Platform   (Belgium)

^d University of Namur   (Belgium)

^e BASQUE CENTRE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE BC3   (Spain)

^f BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Consensus; Ecosystem service assessment; Governance; Scaling; Science policy interface; Transdisciplinarity; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902051612     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-419964-4.00014-7     Document Type: Chapter

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