Assessing the relationship between human well-being and ecosystem services: A review of frameworks

Conservation and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 437-449

  Agarwala, Matthew ^a,b   Atkinson, Giles ^a   Fry, Benjamin Palmer ^c   Homewood, Katherine ^d   Mourato, Susana ^a   Rowcliffe, J Marcus ^e   Wallace, Graham ^c,f   Milner Gulland, E J ^c,f  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^f Frankfurt Zoological Society Arusha   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

anthropology; conservation; development; economics; environmental change; happiness; sustainable development goals; well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944069823     PISSN: 09724923     EISSN: 09753133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0972-4923.155592     Document Type: Review

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