Insights and Opportunities Offered by a Rapid Ecosystem Service Assessment in Promoting a Conservation Agenda in an Urban Biodiversity Hotspot

Regional and global scale ecosystem service assessments have demonstrated the socioeconomic value of protecting biodiversity and have been integrated into associated policy. Local government decision makers are still unsure of the applicability, return on investment, and usefulness of these assessme...

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Main Authors: Patrick J. O'Farrell, Pippin M. L. Anderson, David C. Le Maitre, Patricia M. Holmes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2012-09-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol17/iss3/art27/