Command and control and the pathology of natural resource management

Conservation Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 328-337

  Holling, C S ^a   Meffe, Gary K ^b  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; PATHOLOGY; RESILIENCE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0029773717     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1996.10020328.x     Document Type: Article

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