Biodiversity conservation: Applying new criteria to assess excellence

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1165-1178

  Black, Simon A ^a   Meredith, Helen M R ^a,b   Groombridge, Jim J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Conservation effectiveness; Efqm; Evaluation; Improvement; Management; Planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856408618     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: 14783371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14783363.2011.624766     Document Type: Article

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