Sustaining natural and human capital: Villagers and scientists

Science

Volumn 283, Issue 5409, 1999, Pages 1855-1856

  Getz, Wayne M ^a   Fortmann, Louise ^a   Cumming, David ^b   Du Toit, Johan ^c   Hilty, Jodi ^a   Martin, Rowan ^d   Murphree, Michael ^e   Owen Smith, Norman ^f   Starfield, Anthony M ^g   Westphal, Michael I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b World Wide Fund for Nature   (Zimbabwe)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^d Dept Natl Parks and Wildl Mgmt ^*

^e S Africa Sustainable Use S   (Zimbabwe)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOOD CHAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; WILDLIFE;

EID: 0033583310     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5409.1855     Document Type: Short Survey

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24. We thank NSF for funding a workshop that made this collaboration possible.