Assumptions, challenges, and future directions in cumulative impact analysis

Ecosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Halpern, Benjamin S ^a,b   Fujita, Rod ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Oceans Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation planning; Ecosystem based management; Marine spatial planning; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891898692     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES13-00181.1     Document Type: Article

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