Climate change and protected areas policy, planning and management in Canada's boreal forest

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 347-357

  Scott, Daniel ^a   Lemieux, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Boreal forest; Canada; Climate change; Impacts; Management; Planning; Policy; Protected areas

Indexed keywords

CANADA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PUBLIC POLICY;

ECODIVERSITY; PROTECTED AREAS; PROTECTED AREAS SYSTEM PLANNING;

FORESTRY;

BIODIVERSITY; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; PROTECTED AREA; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

CLIMATES; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; FOREST MANAGEMENT;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 35548998666     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc83347-3     Document Type: Review

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