Monitoring matters: Examining the potential of locally-based approaches

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2507-2542

  Danielsen, Finn ^a   Burgess, Neil D ^b,c   Balmford, Andrew ^b,d  

^a Nordic Agency for Development and Ecology   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c World Wildlife Fund USA ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

2010 target; Accuracy; Biodiversity monitoring; Citizen science; Community based monitoring; Community based natural resource management; Conservation costs; Conservation impact; Decision making; Local constituencies; Locally based monitoring

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; DECISION MAKING; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; MONITORING; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 26844436561     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-005-8375-0     Document Type: Review

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