Green economy modelling of ecosystem services along the “road to Dawei”

Environments - MDPI

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1-21

  Bassi, Andrea M ^a   Gallagher, Louise A ^b   Helsingen, Hanna ^c  

^a Knowledge Srl   (Italy)

^b Luc Hoffmann Institute WWF International   (Switzerland)

^c WWF Myanmar   (Myanmar)

Author keywords

Green growth; Infrastructure; Integrated modelling; Sustainable landscape; System dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85046502229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20763298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/environments3030019     Document Type: Article

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