Quantitative decision tools for conservation programme planning: Practice, theory and potential

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 179-189

  Guikema, Seth ^a   Milke, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Conservation; Conservation budgeting; Conservation management; Decision analysis; Programme planning; Project selection

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; METHODOLOGY; NATURE CONSERVATION; PLANNING PRACTICE;

ARTICLE; BUDGET; COMMUNITY; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METHODOLOGY; NEW ZEALAND; RECREATION;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0032700530     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892999000260     Document Type: Article

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