Finding hope in the millennium ecosystem assessment

Conservation Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 862-869

  Norgaard, Richard B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Deliberative democracy; Environmental assessment; Epistemology; Experiential knowledge; Millennium Ecosystem Assessment; Shared learning; Socioecological systems

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; LEARNING; PHILOSOPHY; POLICY APPROACH;

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LEGAL ASPECT; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 48749108801     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.00922.x     Document Type: Review

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