Costs of integrating economics and conservation planning

Conservation Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1198-1204

  Arponen, Anni ^a   Cabeza, Mar ^a,b   Eklund, Johanna ^a   Kujala, Heini ^a   Lehtomäki, Joona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conservation prioritization; Cost data; Cost effectiveness; Cost efficiency; Ecological economic modeling; Opportunism

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION PLANNING; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLITICAL CONFLICT; PRIORITIZATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; METHODOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, ECONOMIC; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77957168956     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01539.x     Document Type: Article

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