Rights, Governance, and Conservation of Biological Diversity

Conservation Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 639-641

  Bawa, Kamaljit S ^a,b,c   Rai, Nitin D ^c   Sodhi, Navjot S ^d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^c ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (India)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INDIA; LEGAL ASPECT; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; INDIA; TREES;

EID: 79955773108     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01640.x     Document Type: Article

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