Climate change: rethinking restoration in the european union's birds and habitats directives

Ecological Restoration

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 431-439

  Verschuuren, Jonathan ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Birds directive; Climate change; European union environmental policy; Habitats directive; Natura 2000

Indexed keywords

AVES;

EID: 78649860740     PISSN: 15434060     EISSN: 15434079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/er.28.4.431     Document Type: Article

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