"Real" poachers and predators: Shades of meaning in local understandings of threats to fisheries

Society and Natural Resources

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 305-318

  Hampshire, Kate ^a   Bell, Sandra ^a   Wallace, Gillian ^a   Stepukonis, Faustas ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KLAIPEDA UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation; Fisheries management; Human wildlife conflicts; Lithuania; Livelihoods; Poachers; Qualitative research; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

FISHERY MANAGEMENT; NATURE CONSERVATION; POACHING; PREDATOR; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

BALTIC STATES; EURASIA; EUROPE; LITHUANIA; NORTHERN EUROPE;

AGONIDAE; AVES;

EID: 1942539163     PISSN: 08941920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08941920490278656     Document Type: Article

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