Protected Areas as Frontiers for Human Migration

Conservation Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 547-556

  Zommers, Zinta ^a   Macdonald, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Livelihoods; Population growth; Refugees; Resource use; Uganda

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; EMIGRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROTECTED AREA; REFUGEE; RESOURCE USE; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; VILLAGE; WAGE;

ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; MIGRATION; POPULATION GROWTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UGANDA;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; POPULATION GROWTH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; UGANDA;

BUDONGO FOREST RESERVE; EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE ALBERT; UGANDA;

EID: 84861158828     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01846.x     Document Type: Article

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