Review of decision support tools to operationalize the ecosystem services concept

Ecosystem Services

Volumn 26, Issue , 2017, Pages 306-315

  Grêt Regamey, Adrienne ^a   Sirén, Elina ^a   Brunner, Sibyl Hanna ^a   Weibel, Bettina ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Decision making; Environmental policy; Land management; Sustainability; Trade off analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006940246     PISSN: 22120416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.10.012     Document Type: Article

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