Betting against Human Ingenuity: The Perils of the Economic Valuation of Nature's Services

BioScience

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1096-1099

  Kronenberg, Jakub ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

ecosystem services; natural capital; nature based solutions; substitution; valuation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947578919     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: 15253244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biv135     Document Type: Review

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