Protected Areas - What People Say about Well-Being

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 160-172

  Holmes, George ^a   Brockington, Dan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservation, "a good thing"; IUCN six protected, four governance; Limiting changing locals and access; Locals, and micro politics; Protected area definitions; Protected areas; Protected areas, diversity of forms; Protected areas, key social impact

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887384121     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118428351.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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