Ecosystem service valuation in a governance debate: Practitioners' strategic argumentation on forestry in northern Finland

Ecosystem Services

Volumn 16, Issue , 2015, Pages 13-22

  Sarkki, Simo ^a   Karjalainen, Timo P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cultural and provisioning services; Denial; Ecosystem service valuation; Environmental dispute; Local stakeholders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942776571     PISSN: 22120416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2015.09.003     Document Type: Article

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