Challenges to ecosystem management and some implications for science and policy

Ecology, Uncertainty and Policy: Managing Ecosystems for Sustainability

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 26-42

  Norton, Tony ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 77956175160     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315847832-2     Document Type: Chapter

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