Accounting for difficulties faced in materializing a transnational engo conservation network: A case-study from the mediterranean

Global Environmental Politics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 151-115

  Botetzagias, Iosif ^a   Robinson, Prue ^b   Venizelos, Lily ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b MEDASSET ^*

^c MEDASSET   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; TURTLE;

CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 77149168491     PISSN: 15263800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/glep.2010.10.1.115     Document Type: Article

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