Scale Mismatches, Conservation Planning, and the Value of Social-Network Analyses

Conservation Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 35-44

  Guerrero, Angela M ^a,b   McAllister, Ryan R J ^b   Corcoran, Jonathan ^a   Wilson, Kerrie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservation implementation; Conservation planning; Conservation problems; Mitigation of scale mismatch; Social network analysis; Social ecological processes

Indexed keywords

ACTION PLAN; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DATA QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84872221457     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01964.x     Document Type: Review

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