Local engagements with urban bushland: Moving beyond bounded practice for urban biodiversity management

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 93, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 184-193

  Gill, Nicholas ^a   Waitt, Gordon ^a   Head, Lesley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Boundaries; Management planning; Public values; Urban ecology; Urban parks

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; SEMICONDUCTOR INSULATOR BOUNDARIES;

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; MANAGEMENT PLANNING; PUBLIC VALUES; URBAN ECOLOGY; URBAN PARKS;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; BUSHLAND; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; GREENSPACE; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PARK MANAGEMENT; PERCEPTION; POLICY APPROACH; STRATEGIC APPROACH; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 70350575764     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2009.07.004     Document Type: Article

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