Focal areas for measuring the human well-being impacts of a conservation initiative

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 997-1010

  Leisher, Craig ^a   Samberg, Leah H ^b   van Beukering, Pieter ^c   Sanjayan, M ^a  

^a The Nature Conservancy   (United States)

^b Power Consulting Inc   (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Measurement; Objective; Poverty; Socio economic; Subjective

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; WELFARE REFORM;

EID: 84882985252     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su5030997     Document Type: Article

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