Path Dependence in Conservation

Trade-Offs in Conservation: Deciding What to Save

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 292-310

  Adams, William M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

American bison bison bison in Yellowstone National Park; CAMPFIRE programme in Zimbabwe; Conservation and policy evolution ideas becoming path dependent; Conservation ideas and action critical links in policy arena; Ideas, concepts and categorizations knowledge and power expressions; Paradigm shift idea extended to social sciences; Parks and narrative change; Path dependence in conservation; Policies, changing in response to new evidence, new ideas or new conservation challenges; Sahel, classic example of power of environmental narratives

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888684819     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444324907.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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