The national responsibility approach to setting conservation priorities-Recommendations for its use

Journal for Nature Conservation

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 349-357

  Schmeller, Dirk S ^a,d,e   Evans, Douglas ^b   Lin, Yu Pin ^c,f   Henle, Klaus ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity   (France)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f Section 4   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Biodiversity monitoring; Conservation efficiency; Policy support; Prioritization; Resource allocations

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE FRAMEWORK; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; NATIONAL PLANNING; POLICY APPROACH; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EUROPE;

EID: 84902763276     PISSN: 16171381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnc.2014.03.002     Document Type: Article

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