Science support within the South African national parks adaptive management framework

Koedoe

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Kruger, Judith M ^a   Macfadyen, Sandra ^a  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL PARKS   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA MANAGEMENT; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; NATIONAL PARK; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 79959584362     PISSN: 00756458     EISSN: 20710771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4102/koedoe.v53i2.1010     Document Type: Article

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