The crown jewels and the big society - What future for national nature reserves?

Ecos

Volumn 31, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 28-35

  Adams, William M ^a   Hodge, Ian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; NATURE RESERVE; NEOLIBERALISM; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

ENGLAND; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79751512476     PISSN: 01439073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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12. Juliette Jowitt (2010) 'Spending review: "greenest government ever" reserves worst cuts for Defra', Guardian 20 October 2010
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19. Although the boom in climate change research has to some extent recreated that link, with NNRs and SSSIs providing control sites for assessing the impacts of rising anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations.
20. http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/ourwork/conservation/designatedareas/ nnr/events/default.aspx
21. http://wwwnumber10.gov.uk/news/speeches-and-transcripts/2010/07/ big-society-speech-53572
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