Do parks work? Impact of protected areas on land cover clearing

Ambio

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 330-337

  Nagendra, Harini ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAND COVER; META-ANALYSIS; NATURE CONSERVATION; PARK MANAGEMENT; PROTECTED AREA;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORESTRY; META ANALYSIS;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY;

ASIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; LATIN AMERICA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 51549087127     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/06-R-184.1     Document Type: Article

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59. Acknowledgments: The author thanks two anonymous referees for providing extensive and useful comments, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin for generously providing research facilities and use of their excellent bibliographic resources while conducting research for this manuscript, and the Branco Weiss: Society in Science Fellowship for financial support.
60. First submitted 3 May 2006, Accepted for publication 17 September 2007.