Icons under threat: Why monitoring visitors and their ecological impacts in protected areas matters

Ecological Management and Restoration

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 177-181

  Hadwen, Wade L ^a   Hill, Wendy ^a   Pickering, Catherine M ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Protected area management; Recreation ecology; Tourism impacts; Visitor impacts

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; MITIGATION; MONITORING SYSTEM; PROTECTED AREA; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; SUSTAINABILITY; TOURISM MANAGEMENT;

EID: 35748964703     PISSN: 14427001     EISSN: 14428903     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-8903.2007.00364.x     Document Type: Review

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