Off-stage ecosystem service burdens: A blind spot for global sustainability

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Pascual, Unai ^a,b,c   Palomo, Ignacio ^a,d   Adams, William M ^c   Chan, Kai M A ^e   Daw, Tim M ^f   Garmendia, Eneko ^a   Gómez Baggethun, Erik ^g,h   De Groot, Rudolf S ⁱ   Mace, Georgina M ^j   Martín López, Berta ^k   Phelps, Jacob ^l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^h NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

ⁱ WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^j UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^k LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^l LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

biodiversity; cross scale interactions; ecosystem assessments; global sustainability; IPBES; IPCC; teleconnections

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; LIFE CYCLE; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ECOSYSTEM ASSESSMENT; GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY; IPBES; IPCC; SCALE INTERACTIONS; TELECONNECTIONS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIODIVERSITY; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; POLICY APPROACH; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 85025659518     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa7392     Document Type: Article

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