Inclusion of costs in conservation planning depends on limited datasets and hopeful assumptions

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1322, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 61-76

  Armsworth, Paul R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic; Land use; Reserve; Site selection; Space; Targeting

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTING; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; COST; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION; PROXY; SCIENTIST; STANDARD;

ECONOMIC; LAND USE; RESERVE; SITE SELECTION; SPACE; TARGETING;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COST ALLOCATION; DATABASES AS TOPIC; ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 84906092863     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12455     Document Type: Article

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