Variation in ecosystem service values in an agroforestry dominated landscape in Ethiopia: Implications for land use and conservation policy

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2018, Pages

  Temesgen, Habtamu ^a,b   Wu, Wei ^a,c   Shi, Xiaoping ^a   Yirsaw, Eshetu ^a,b   Bekele, Belewu ^a,d   Kindu, Mengistie ^e  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DILLA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c National Joint Local Engineering Research Center for Rural Land Resources Use and Consolidation   (China)

^d Assosa ATVET College   (Ethiopia)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agroforestry; Ecosystem service valuation; Ecosystem services; Ethiopian; Gedeo Abaya; Land use and conservation policy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGROFORESTRY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MODEL; NATURAL CAPITAL; VALUATION;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 85045274307     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su10041126     Document Type: Article

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