Ten things to get right for marine conservation planning in the Coral Triangle

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Volumn 3, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Weeks, Rebecca ^a   Pressey, Robert L ^a   Wilson, Joanne R ^b   Knight, Maurice ^a,c   Horigue, Vera ^a   Abesamis, Rene A ^d   Acosta, Renerio ^e   Jompa, Jamaluddin ^f  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Sea Solutions ^*  (Australia)

^c USAID   (Indonesia)

^d SILLIMAN UNIVERSITY   (Philippines)

^e USAID Regional Development Mission for Asia   (Thailand)

^f HASANUDDIN UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAPACITY BUILDING; COASTAL WATERS; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GOVERNMENT; INDONESIA; MALAYSIA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PHILIPPINES; PROGRAM ACCEPTABILITY; PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOLOMON ISLANDS; TIMOR-LESTE;

EID: 84915747608     PISSN: 20461402     EISSN: 1759796X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.3886.2     Document Type: Article

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