Natural capital and ecosystem services informing decisions: From promise to practice

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 7348-7355

  Guerry, Anne D ^a,b   Polasky, Stephen ^c   Lubchenco, Jane ^d   Chaplin Kramer, Rebecca ^b   Daily, Gretchen C ^b,e   Griffin, Robert ^b   Ruckelshaus, Mary ^a,b   Bateman, Ian J ^f   Duraiappah, Anantha ^g   Elmqvist, Thomas ^h   Feldman, Marcus W ^b   Folke, Carl ^e,h   Hoekstra, Jon ⁱ   Kareiva, Peter M ^j   Keeler, Bonnie L ^c   Li, Shuzhuo ^k   McKenzie, Emily ^i,l   Ouyang, Zhiyun ^m   Reyers, Belinda ⁿ   Ricketts, Taylor H ^o   Rockström, Johan ^h   Tallis, Heather ^j   Vira, Bhaskar ^p   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^g Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development   (India)

^h STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁱ WORLD WILDLIFE FUND   (United States)

^j THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^k XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^l Living Planet Centre   (United Kingdom)

^m RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

ⁿ DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^o UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

Beneficiary; Decision making; Human well being; Resilience; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; DEFORESTATION; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECOSYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HUMAN; INFORMATION SERVICE; KNOWLEDGE; MICROCLIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM IMPACT; REFORESTATION; REVIEW; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL NORM; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN POPULATION; WATER QUALITY; WELLBEING; ANIMAL; ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; POLICY; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; PUBLIC POLICY;

EID: 84935873404     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1503751112     Document Type: Review

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