Conversations in conservation: Revealing and dealing with language differences in environmental conflicts

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1198-1204

  Webb, Thomas J ^a   Raffaelli, Dave ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conflicts; Conservation discourses; Content analysis; Ground nesting birds; Hedgehogs; Interdisciplinarity; Stakeholder values

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ISLAND; MAMMAL; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STAKEHOLDER;

ANIMALIA; AVES; ERINACEIDAE; ERINACEUS EUROPAEUS;

EID: 46749091240     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2008.01495.x     Document Type: Article

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