Are incentive programs working? Landowner attitudes to ecological restoration ofagricultural landscapes

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 127, Issue , 2013, Pages 69-76

  Jellinek, Sacha ^a   Parris, Kirsten M ^a   Driscoll, Don A ^b   Dwyer, Peter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Attitudes; Fauna; Fire; Landowner; Management actions; Pest animals; Remnant vegetation; Restore; Revegetate; Weeds

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; FARMS; RESTORATION; REVEGETATION; SOIL CONSERVATION;

ATTITUDE; FAUNA; LANDOWNER; MANAGEMENT ACTION; NATIVE PLANTS; PEST ANIMAL; REMNANT VEGETATION; RESTORE; REVEGETATE; WEED;

VEGETATION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; ARABLE LAND; ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; BIODIVERSITY; FAUNA; FIRE BEHAVIOR; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDOWNER; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PRIVATE LAND; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION; WEED;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FIRE; HUMAN; INCOME; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PLAGUE; REVEGETATION; WEED;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84877904763     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: 10958630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.04.034     Document Type: Article

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