Freshwater ecosystem services supporting humans: Pivoting from water crisis to water solutions

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 34, Issue , 2015, Pages 108-118

  Green, Pamela A ^a   Vörösmarty, Charles J ^a,b   Harrison, Ian ^c   Farrell, Tracy ^c   Sáenz, Leonard ^c   Fekete, Balázs M ^a,b  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b City University of New York   (United States)

^c Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Ecosystem; Freshwater; Management; Provisioning

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOENGINEERING; BIOINDICATOR; COST ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN ACTIVITY; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REMEDIATION; RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TYPOLOGY; VULNERABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; CRISIS MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; SERVICE PROVISION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WATER DEMAND; WATER RESOURCE;

EID: 84938062845     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.06.007     Document Type: Article

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