Human-nature for climate action: Nature-based solutions for urban sustainability

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Fink, Helen Santiago ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Behavior change; Biophilia; Cities; Climate change; Green infrastructure; Nature; Sustainability; Urban ecosystem services

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENSPACE; INFRASTRUCTURE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 84961880425     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su8030254     Document Type: Article

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