Designing effective solutions to conservation planning problems

Key Topics in Conservation Biology 2

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 362-383

  Knight, Andrew T ^a,b   Rodrigues, Ana S L ^c   Strange, Niels ^d   Tew, Tom ^e   Wilson, Kerrie A ^f  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e The Environment Bank   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservation planning; Operational model; Problem formulation; Spatial conservation prioritisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886539683     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118520178.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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