Planning low-impact tourist paths within a Site of Community Importance through the optimisation of biological and logistic criteria

Biological Conservation

Volumn 141, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1067-1077

  Ferrarini, Alessandro ^a   Rossi, Graziano ^a   Parolo, Gilberto ^a   Ferloni, Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b Ufficio Faunistico Province of Sondrio   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Ecotourism; EU priority habitats; Path optimisation; Threatened species

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BUFFER ZONE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; CONSERVATION STATUS; ECOTOURISM; EUROPEAN UNION; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LOGISTICS; OPTIMIZATION; PROTECTED AREA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 41849130209     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.01.013     Document Type: Article

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