Motivations for conserving urban biodiversity;Motivaciones para conservar la biodiversidad urbana

Conservation Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 432-440

  Dearborn, Donald C ^a   Kark, Salit ^b  

^a BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cities; Ecosystem services; Human health; Urban biodiversity conservation; Urban planning; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; HABITAT CONSERVATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SPECIES CONSERVATION; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBAN PLANNING; URBANIZATION;

ANIMAL; ANTELOPE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CITY PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ANIMALS; ANTELOPES; BIODIVERSITY; CITY PLANNING; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77954163387     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01328.x     Document Type: Article

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