Emerging strategies for voluntary urban ecological stewardship on private property

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 157, Issue , 2017, Pages 586-597

  Cerra, Joshua F ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem services; Habitat stewardship; Private property; Urban ecology; Urban environmental policy; Voluntary incentives

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; HABITAT STEWARDSHIP; PRIVATE PROPERTY; URBAN ECOLOGY; VOLUNTARY INCENTIVES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ETHICS; GREENSPACE; INCENTIVE; LANDOWNER; LANDOWNERSHIP; PRIVATE LAND; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POPULATION; VOLUNTARY APPROACH;

EID: 84988965863     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.06.016     Document Type: Review

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