Rapid urbanisation in Singapore causes a shift from local provisioning and regulating to cultural ecosystem services use

Ecosystem Services

Volumn 46, Issue , 2020, Pages

  Richards, D R ^a,b   Law, A ^a,b   Tan, C S Y ^a,b   Shaikh, S F E A ^b,c   Carrasco, L R ^c   Jaung, W ^b,c   Oh, R R Y ^d  

^a FUTURE CITIES LABORATORY   (Singapore)

^b CAMPUS FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AND TECHNOLOGICAL ENTERPRISE CREATE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Historical environmental change; Nature's contributions to people; Retrospective survey; Singapore

Indexed keywords

EID: 85092709648     PISSN: 22120416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101193     Document Type: Article

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