Sustaining Europe’s seas as coupled social-ecological systems

Ecology and Society

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Mee, Laurence ^a   Cooper, Philip ^a   Kannen, Andreas ^b   Gilbert, Alison J ^c   O’Higgins, Tim ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecosystem approach; Marine strategy framework directive; Regional seas; Social ecological systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923606425     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-07143-200101     Document Type: Editorial

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