Between-country collaboration and consideration of costs increase conservation planning efficiency in the Mediterranean Basin

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 36, 2009, Pages 15368-15373

  Kark, Salit ^a,b   Levin, Noam ^a   Grantham, Hedley S ^b   Possingham, Hugh P ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity costs; Complementarity; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BUDGET; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUROPEAN UNION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INVESTMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MODELS, ECONOMIC; PLANNING TECHNIQUES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70349349183     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901001106     Document Type: Article

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