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Toward Ecosystem Services as a Basis for Design

Steven Windhager, Frederick Steiner, Mark T. Simmons and David Heymann
Landscape Journal, September 2010, 29 (2) 107-123; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.29.2.107
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