A review on trade-off analysis of ecosystem services for sustainable land-use management

Journal of Geographical Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 953-968

  Deng, Xiangzheng ^a,b   Li, Zhihui ^a,b,c   Gibson, John ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

ecosystem services; efficiency frontier; integrated modeling; land use management; multi criteria analysis; scale; trade offs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977138443     PISSN: 1009637X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11442-016-1309-9     Document Type: Review

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