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Assessing the Valuation of Multiple Ecosystem Services

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The ecosystem service concept is becoming more and more acknowledged in science and decision-making. Taking an economic valuation approach, we quantified the economic value change of ecosystem services for different land-use types in the middle basin of Heihe River, Northwest China.

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Liang, Y., Liu, L., Huang, J. (2020). Assessing the Valuation of Multiple Ecosystem Services. In: Integrated Modelling of Ecosystem Services and Land-Use Change. Springer Geography. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9125-5_7

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