Protection, politics and protest: Understanding resistance to conservation

Conservation and Society

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 184-201

  Holmes, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservation; Protected areas; Protest; Resistance; Subaltern

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951771081     PISSN: 09724923     EISSN: 09753133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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