Applying the ecosystem services concept to poverty alleviation : the need to disaggregate human well - being
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TIM D AW 1 , 2 ∗, KATRI N A B ROWN 1 , SE R G I O RO S E N D O 1 , 3 AND ROBERT POMEROY 4 1School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK, 2Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden, 3e-GEO, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Avenida de Berna, 26-C, 1069-061 Lisbon, Portugal, and 4Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics/Connecticut Sea Grant, University of Connecticut, Groton, Connecticut, USA Date submitted: 8 December 2010; Date accepted: 30 August 2011
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