Governance of Ecosystem Services: A framework for empirical analysis

Ecosystem Services

Volumn 16, Issue , 2015, Pages 158-166

  Primmer, Eeva ^a   Jokinen, Pekka ^b   Blicharska, Malgorzata ^c,d   Barton, David N ^e   Bugter, Rob ^f   Potschin, Marion ^g  

^a FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d Swedish Biodiversity Centre   (Sweden)

^e NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^f WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arguments; Biodiversity conservation; Ecosystem services; Governance; Policy implementation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929774351     PISSN: 22120416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2015.05.002     Document Type: Article

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