Governance in transboundary conservation: How institutional structure and path dependence matter

Conservation and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 420-428

  Schoon, Michael ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

collaboration; governance; Great Limpopo; institutional development; institutions; Kgalagadi; path dependency; transboundary conservation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893756867     PISSN: 09724923     EISSN: 09753133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0972-4923.125758     Document Type: Article

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