Socio-cultural valuation of ecosystem services in a transhumance social-ecological network

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1269-1289

  Oteros Rozas, Elisa ^a,b   Martín López, Berta ^a   González, José A ^a   Plieninger, Tobias ^c   López, César A ^a   Montes, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Drove roads; Ecosystem services; Human well being; Perception; Rangelands; Spatial and temporal locations; Value

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904673939     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-013-0571-y     Document Type: Article

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