Valuing ecosystem services in community-based landscape planning: introducing a wellbeing-based approach

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1347-1360

  Liu, Juichieh ^a   Opdam, Paul ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Community based landscape planning; Ecosystem service; Ecosystem service valuation; Group deliberation; Human wellbeing; Stakeholder participation; Value articulating institutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939893714     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-014-0045-8     Document Type: Article

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