Environmental monitoring: The scale and speed of implementation varies according to the degree of peoples involvement

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1166-1168

  Danielsen, Finn ^a   Burgess, Neil D ^b,c   Jensen, Per M ^d   Pirhofer Walzl, Karin ^a,d  

^a Nordic Agency for Development and Ecology   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c WORLD WILDLIFE FUND   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

2020 target; Biodiversity monitoring; Citizen science; Climate change; Decision making; Locally based monitoring; Natural resource management; Participatory monitoring; REDD; Stakeholder participation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; NATURAL RESOURCE; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; STAKEHOLDER;

EID: 78149295172     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01874.x     Document Type: Article

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