Evaluation of cultural ecosystem services: A review of methods

Ecosystem Services

Volumn 37, Issue , 2019, Pages

  Cheng, Xin ^a   Van Damme, Sylvie ^b   Li, Luyuan ^a   Uyttenhove, Pieter ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE GHENT   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cultural ecosystem services; Evaluation methods; Monetary; Non monetary; Revealed preference; Stated preference

Indexed keywords

EID: 85063739172     PISSN: 22120416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2019.100925     Document Type: Review

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