Climate change impacts, conservation and protected values: Understanding promotion, ambivalence and resistance to policy change at the world conservation congress

Conservation and Society

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 298-311

  Hagerman, Shannon ^a   Satterfeld, Terre ^a   Dowlatabadi, Hadi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Conservation; Policy change; Protected areas; Protected values

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865776316     PISSN: 09724923     EISSN: 09753133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0972-4923.78146     Document Type: Article

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