Outstanding challenges for urban conservation research and action

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 39-49

  Shwartz, Assaf ^a,b,c   Turbé, Anne ^d   Julliard, Romain ^b   Simon, Laurent ^a   Prévot, Anne Caroline ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^d BIO Intelligence Service   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Cities; Ecosystem services; Education; Interdisciplinary; Policy; Quality of life; Sustainability; Urban nature; Well being

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; DECIDUOUS FOREST; GREENSPACE; POLICY MAKING; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; BIODIVERSITY; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RARE SPECIES; SPECIES DIVERSITY; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84922364435     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.06.002     Document Type: Article

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