Securing the future of the natural environment: Using scenarios to anticipate challenges to biodiversity, landscapes and public engagement with nature

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1518-1526

  Kass, Gary S ^a   Shaw, Rosalind F ^b   Tew, Tom ^a   MacDonald, David W ^b  

^a NATURAL ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Conservation planning; Decision making; Ecosystems; Ethnographic futures framework; Futures; Global environmental change; Land use change; Society

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ETHNOBOTANY; FUTURE PROSPECT; LAND USE CHANGE; PUBLIC SECTOR;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 80055088570     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2011.02055.x     Document Type: Article

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