You can't not choose: Embracing the role of choice in ecological restoration

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 601-605

  Allison, Stuart K ^a  

^a KNOX COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Ecological restoration; Environmental ethics; Human choice; Land management; Restoration ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 37249054921     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2007.00271.x     Document Type: Editorial

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