Predicting willingness-to-sell and its utility for assessing conservation opportunity for expanding protected area networks

Conservation Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 332-339

  Guerrero, Angela M ^a   Knight, Andrew T ^b   Grantham, Hedley S ^a   Cowling, Richard M ^c   Wilson, Kerrie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Conservation opportunity; Human and social factors; Marxan; Probabilistic data; Spatial prioritization; Systematic conservation planning; Willingness to sell

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951625394     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2010.00116.x     Document Type: Article

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