Targeting conservation payments to achieve multiple outcomes

Biological Conservation

Volumn 141, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2368-2375

  Hajkowicz, Stefan ^a   Higgins, Andrew ^a   Miller, Craig ^a   Marinoni, Oswald ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity protection; Conservation planning and markets; Economics; Multiple criteria analysis; Optimisation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; OPTIMIZATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 51249112196     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.06.028     Document Type: Article

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