Managing Protected Areas Under Climate Change: Challenges and Priorities

Environmental Management

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 732-743

  Rannow, Sven ^a   Macgregor, Nicholas A ^b   Albrecht, Juliane ^c   Crick, Humphrey Q P ^b   Förster, Michael ^d   Heiland, Stefan ^d   Janauer, Georg ^e   Morecroft, Mike D ^b   Neubert, Marco ^c   Sarbu, Anca ^f   Sienkiewicz, Jadwiga ^g  

^a Biosphere Reserve River Landscape Elbe Brandenburg   (Germany)

^b NATURAL ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGICAL URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^d TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^g INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Assessing sensitivity; Climate adaptation; Conservation management; Legal and policy advice; Management practices; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MANAGERS; MONITORING;

ASSESSING SENSITIVITY; CLIMATE ADAPTATION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; LEGAL AND POLICY ADVICE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; LEGAL ASPECT; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PROCEDURES; RESEARCH;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNICATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; RESEARCH;

EID: 84919387871     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-014-0271-5     Document Type: Article

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