Methods of social assessment in Marine Protected Area planning: Is public participation enough?

Marine Policy

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 432-439

  Voyer, Michelle ^a   Gladstone, William ^a   Goodall, Heather ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Impact assessment; Marine conservation; Marine protected areas; Public participation; Social impacts; Socioeconomics

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; MARINE PARK; NATURE CONSERVATION; PERCEPTION; PLANNING PROCESS; PROTECTED AREA; SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 80052524627     PISSN: 0308597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2011.08.002     Document Type: Article

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