Economic benefits of biodiversity exceed costs of conservation at an African rainforest reserve

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 102, Issue 46, 2005, Pages 16712-16716

  Naidoo, Robin ^a,b   Adamowicz, Wiktor L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b World Wildlife Fund ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Choice experiment; Cost benefit; Deforestation; Land value; Uganda

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ECOTOURISM; LAND USE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAIN FOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TOURISM; UGANDA;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; UGANDA;

AVES;

EID: 28044448726     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0508036102     Document Type: Article

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