Maintenance of forest biodiversity in a post-soviet governance model: Perceptions by local actors in Lithuania

Environmental Management

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 20-33

  Lazdinis, Marius ^a   Angelstam, Per ^b   Lazdinis, Imantas ^c  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c MYKOLAS ROMERIS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Forestry; Governance; In depth interviews; Needs assessment; The Baltic States

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; THE BALTIC STATES;

CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; PUBLIC POLICY;

BIODIVERSITY;

ACTOR NETWORK THEORY; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PERCEPTION; POLICY APPROACH; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FOREST; INTERVIEW; LITHUANIA; POLICY; TELEPHONE;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FORESTRY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; LITHUANIA; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC POLICY; TREES;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; FORESTS;

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

EID: 34249887356     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-005-0387-8     Document Type: Article

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