Taking stock of nature in species-rich but economically poor areas: An emerging discipline of locally based monitoring

Taking Stock of Nature: Participatory Biodiversity Assessment for Policy, Planning and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 88-112

  Danielsen, Finn ^a   Burgess, Neil ^b   Funder, Mikkel ^a   Blomley, Tom ^c   Brashares, Justin ^d   Akida, Amina ^e   Jensen, Arne ^a   Mendoza, Marlynn ^c   Stuart Hill, Greg ^f   Poulsen, Michael K ^a   Ramadhani, Hadija ^e   Sam, Moses K ^g   Topp Jørgensen, Elmer ^c  

^a Nordic Agency for Development and Ecology   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Participatory Forest Management ^*  (Greenland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Kingolwira National Fish Farm   (Tanzania)

^f Namibian Association of Conservancy Support Organizations and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Living in a Finite Environment (LIFE) Project Namibia   (Namibia)

^g FORESTRY COMMISSION   (Ghana)

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EID: 79952622718     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511676482.005     Document Type: Chapter

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