Entry Points for Considering Ecosystem Services within Infrastructure Planning: How to Integrate Conservation with Development in Order to Aid Them Both

Conservation Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 221-227

  Mandle, Lisa ^a   Bryant, Benjamin P ^a   Ruckelshaus, Mary ^a   Geneletti, Davide ^b   Kiesecker, Joseph M ^c   Pfaff, Alexander ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental impact assessment; infrastructure investments; landscape scale development planning; multilateral development bank; natural capital; road development strategic environmental assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945975045     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12201     Document Type: Article

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