Towards sustainable wildlife management areas in Tanzania

Tropical Conservation Science

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 103-116

  Wilfred, Paulo ^a,b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF TANZANIA   (Tanzania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human pressure; Resource utilization; Sustainable management; Tanzania; Wildlife management areas

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951736534     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19400829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/194008291000300102     Document Type: Article

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