Keeping the ‘Great’ in the Great Barrier Reef: Large-scale governance of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

International Journal of the Commons

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 396-427

  Evans, Louisa S ^a,b   Ban, Natalie C ^b,c   Schoon, Michael ^d   Nenadovic, Mateja ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coral reefs; Fisheries; Great Barrier Reef; Large scale; Marine; Socialecological system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907016181     PISSN: 18750281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18352/ijc.405     Document Type: Article

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