Local actions for the common good: Can the application of the ecosystem services concept generate improved societal outcomes from natural resource management?

Land Use Policy

Volumn 56, Issue , 2016, Pages 327-332

  Paudyal, Kiran ^a   Baral, Himlal ^b   Keenan, Rodney J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Ecosystem services; International development; Land use planning; Livelihoods; Natural resource management

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; LAND USE PLANNING; LIVELIHOOD; NATURAL RESOURCE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 84947605964     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.11.010     Document Type: Article

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