Linking Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Alleviation: What, Why and Where?

Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Alleviation: Exploring the Evidence for a Link

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-18

  Roe, Dilys ^a   Elliott, Joanna ^b   Sandbrook, Chris ^c   Walpole, Matt ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT   (United Kingdom)

^b AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION   (Kenya)

^c UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity and poverty; Biodiversity conservation priorities; Ecosystem services; Global economic on biodiversity poverty; Poverty alleviation; Poverty differences; Sharing common forces; The Millennium MA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887325255     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118428351.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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