A household perspective for biodiversity conservation

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1243-1248

  Peterson, M Nils ^a   Peterson, Markus J ^b   Peterson, Tarla Rai ^b   Liu, Jianguo ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation; Endangered species; Environmental ethics; Households; Human population; Land ethic

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ETHICS; NATURE CONSERVATION; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 38049143213     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2006-207     Document Type: Article

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