Bigger is better: Improved nature conservation and economic returns from landscape-level mitigation

Science Advances

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Kennedy, Christina M ^a   Miteva, Daniela A ^a   Baumgarten, Leandro ^a   Hawthorne, Peter L ^b   Sochi, Kei ^a   Polasky, Stephen ^b   Oakleaf, James R ^a   Uhlhorn, Elizabeth M ^c   Kiesecker, Joseph ^a  

^a THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Dow Construction Chemicals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER QUALITY;

BRAZILIAN CERRADO; CONSERVATION BENEFITS; ECONOMIC RETURNS; IMPACT MITIGATION; MITIGATION POLICIES; PRIMARY MECHANISM; PROJECT PLANNING; STEADY-STATE MODELS;

SURFACE WATERS;

CARBON;

BRAZIL; CHEMISTRY; ECONOMIC MODEL; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FOREST; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; SUGARCANE; WATER QUALITY;

BRAZIL; CARBON; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; SACCHARUM; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 85006326088     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1501021     Document Type: Article

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