Economic evaluation of ecosystem goods and services under different landscape management scenarios

Land Use Policy

Volumn 39, Issue , 2014, Pages 54-64

  Baral, Himlal ^a   Keenan, Rodney J ^b   Sharma, Sunil K ^c   Stork, Nigel E ^d   Kasel, Sabine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Rundle Mall   (Australia)

^d GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decision making; Economic evaluation; Ecosystem goods and services; Land management; Land use scenarios

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE;

EID: 84903463118     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.03.008     Document Type: Article

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