Naturalness or Biodiversity:Negotiating the dilemma of intervention in swedish protected area management

Environmental Values

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 31-54

  Steinwall, Anders ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Ecological restoration; Forest; Policy analysis; Preservationism

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; ETHICS; NATURALNESS; POLICY ANALYSIS; PROTECTED AREA; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

SWEDEN;

EID: 84920887472     PISSN: 09632719     EISSN: 17527015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3197/096327115X14183182353791     Document Type: Article

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