Legal Instruments to Protect Ecosystem Services: Alexandre Altmann presented in Coimbra University Faculty of Law (Portugal) the PhD thesis denominated “Legal Instruments to Protect Ecosystem Services”. The author proposes the adoption of a “Legal Theory of Ecosystem Services” to systematize and operationalize the ES concept in the design of laws, court decisions, contracts, political / administrative decision making, etc. Author contact: [email protected]
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