Biodiversity, Governance, and the Allocation of International Aid for Conservation

Conservation Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 12-20

  Miller, Daniel C ^a   Agrawal, Arun ^a   Roberts, J Timmons ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aid allocation; Biodiversity conservation; Conservation finance; Conservation investment; Environmental aid; Foreign aid; Governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873603729     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00270.x     Document Type: Article

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