The implementation crisis in conservation planning: Could "mental models" help?

Conservation Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 169-183

  Biggs, Duan ^a   Abel, Nick ^b   Knight, Andrew T ^c   Leitch, Anne ^a,b   Langston, Art ^b   Ban, Natalie C ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Conflict resolution; Conservation planning's implementation gap; Mental models; Perception; Social assessment; Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053208687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2011.00170.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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