Influence of aesthetic appreciation of wildlife species on attitudes towards their conservation in Kenyan agropastoralist communities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Roque De Pinho, Joana ^a,b   Grilo, Clara ^c,d   Boone, Randall B ^a   Galvin, Kathleen A ^a   Snodgrass, Jeffrey G ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas ISCSP Technical University of Lisbon   (Portugal)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AESTHETIC APPRECIATION; AGROPASTORALIST COMMUNITTY; ANTELOPE; ARTICLE; BUFFALO; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ELAND; ELEPHANT; ESTHETICS; GAZELLE; GIRAFFE; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); HYENA; KENYA; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL STATUS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; UNGULATE; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ATTITUDE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ESTHETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; KENYA; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84895865353     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088842     Document Type: Article

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