Harmonizing assessment of conservation with that of ecological quality: Fitting a square peg into a round hole?

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 365-369

  Irvine, Kenneth ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; CONSERVATION STATUS; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PROTECTED AREA; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 67650099174     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: 10990755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.1050     Document Type: Review

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