Assessing the benefits of Transboundary Protected Areas: A questionnaire survey in the Americas and the Caribbean

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 149, Issue , 2015, Pages 245-252

  McCallum, Jamie W ^a,b   Vasilijević, Maja ^b   Cuthill, Innes ^a  

^a Bristol Life Sciences Building   (United Kingdom)

^b IUCN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Conservation management; Ecological economics; Protected areas; Transboundary cooperation; Transboundary movement

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; MANAGEMENT ECONOMICS; PROTECTED AREAS; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC BENEFITS; SPATIAL MANAGEMENT; TRANS-BOUNDARY; TRANSBOUNDARY COOPERATION; TRANSBOUNDARY MOVEMENTS;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; PROTECTED AREA; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; TRANSBOUNDARY COOPERATION;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CARIBBEAN; COOPERATION; COORDINATION; CULTURAL VALUE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FUNDING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; POLICY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; TRANSBOUNDARY PROTECTED AREA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PROCEDURES; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; UNITED STATES;

BIODIVERSITY; CARIBBEAN REGION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84910601319     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: 10958630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.10.013     Document Type: Article

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