Opportunities for Cost-Sharing in Conservation: Variation in Volunteering Effort across Protected Areas

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Armsworth, Paul R ^a,b   Cantú Salazar, Lisette ^a,e   Parnell, Mark ^c   Booth, Josephine E ^a,f   Stoneman, Rob ^d   Davies, Zoe G ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c Mapping GIS and Spatial Solutions   (United Kingdom)

^d YORKSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e Public Research Centre Gabriel Lippmann   (Luxembourg)

^f SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; POPULATION SIZE; SPECIES HABITAT; UNITED KINGDOM; VOLUNTARY WORKER;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COST SHARING; ENGLAND; LINEAR MODELS; PLANNING TECHNIQUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VOLUNTARY WORKERS;

EID: 84873829993     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055395     Document Type: Article

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