Motivations and barriers in relation to community participation in biodiversity recording

Journal for Nature Conservation

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 364-373

  Hobbs, Sarah J ^a   White, Piran C L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Deprived areas; Monitoring; Nature conservation organisations; NGO; Public participation; Wellbeing; Wildlife monitoring

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATABASE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; NATURE CONSERVATION; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84868377387     PISSN: 16171381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnc.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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