Conservation's blind spot: The case for conflict transformation in wildlife conservation

Biological Conservation

Volumn 178, Issue , 2014, Pages 97-106

  Madden, Francine ^a   McQuinn, Brian ^a,b  

^a Human Wildlife Conflict Collaboration (HWCC)   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservation conflicts; Decision making; Human wildlife conflict; Natural resource management; Peacebuilding; Stakeholders

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; NATURAL RESOURCE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL CONFLICT; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STAKEHOLDER; WILD POPULATION; CAPACITY BUILDING; CARRYING CAPACITY; DECISION MAKING; NATURE CONSERVATION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

WORLD;

EID: 84906047159     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2014.07.015     Document Type: Review

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