Quantifying community perceptions of marine environments for marine protected area planning: When is the reef too crowded?

Tourism in Marine Environments

Volumn 5, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 101-109

  Breen, Barbara Bollard ^a   Breen, Daniel ^b  

^a AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Crowding; Great barrier reef marine park; Limits of use; Marine protected areas

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953181499     PISSN: 1544273X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/154427308787716794     Document Type: Article

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