Ecosystem service indicators: Data sources and conceptual frameworks for sustainable management

Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 346-375

  Dick, Jan ^a   Smith, Ron ^a   Banin, Lindsay ^a   Reis, Stefan ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conceptual framework; Decision making; Ecosystem service index; Environmental change network; Europe; Eurostat; Policy; Sustainable management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938223934     PISSN: 20408021     EISSN: 2040803X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/SAMPJ-11-2013-0051     Document Type: Article

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