Strange bedfellows? Techno-fixes to solve the big conservation issues in southern Asia

Biological Conservation

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 7-10

  Brook, Barry W ^a   Bradshaw, Corey J A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anthropocene; Biofuels; Consumption rates; Energy supply; Extinction; Human population size; Hydroelectricity; Nuclear energy; Social change; Southeast Asia; Technological fix; Wealth

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARABLE LAND; BIOFUEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEFORESTATION; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY CROP; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL FUEL; FUEL CONSUMPTION; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; INVASIVE SPECIES; LOGGING (TIMBER); NUCLEAR POWER; POPULATION SIZE; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

GANGES RIVER; MEKONG RIVER; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 84862010185     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.10.007     Document Type: Review

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