Settling indigenous claims to protected areas: Weighing Māori aspirations against Australian experiences

Conservation and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 89-106

  Lyver, Phil O'B ^a   Davies, Jocelyn ^b   Allen, Robert B ^a  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Co management; Collaborative governance; Indigenous governance; Joint management; M ori; New Zealand; Te Urewera; T hoe

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901002234     PISSN: 09724923     EISSN: 09753133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0972-4923.132134     Document Type: Article

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