Bridging the gap between 'planning' and 'doing' for biodiversity conservation in freshwaters

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 180-195

  Barmuta, Leon A ^a   Linke, Simon ^b,d   Turak, Eren ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c NSW Department of Environment Climate Change and Water   (Australia)

^d GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Freshwater conservation; Knowing doing gap; Resilience thinking; Systematic conservation planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650007568     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2010.02514.x     Document Type: Article

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