Critical Issues in Managing Protected Areas by Multi-Stakeholder Participation Analysis of a Process in the Swiss Alps

Eco.mont

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-50

  Wallner, Astrid ^a   Wiesmann, Urs ^b  

^a UNESCO World Heritage Site Jungfrau Aletsch ^*  (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Integrated management; Participation; Protected areas; Switzerland; World heritage site

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871867799     PISSN: 2073106X     EISSN: 20731558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1553/eco.mont1s45     Document Type: Article

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