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European Energy Governance Landscapes: Energy-Related Pressures on Ecosystem Services

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Energy provision affects ecosystems and their services for humans. This applies to all forms of energy, whether fossil resource-based or renewable, ecosystem-based or not.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Economics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Sebastian Strunz, Erik Gawel & Alexandra Purkus

  2. Faculty of Economics and Management Science, Institute for Infrastructure and Resources Management, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

    Erik Gawel

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  1. Department of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Matthias Schröter

  2. Department of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Aletta Bonn

  3. Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Halle, Germany

    Stefan Klotz

  4. Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Ralf Seppelt

  5. Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Halle, Germany

    Cornelia Baessler

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Strunz, S., Gawel, E., Purkus, A. (2019). European Energy Governance Landscapes: Energy-Related Pressures on Ecosystem Services. In: Schröter, M., Bonn, A., Klotz, S., Seppelt, R., Baessler, C. (eds) Atlas of Ecosystem Services. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96229-0_19

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