Walk on the Wild Side: Estimating the Global Magnitude of Visits to Protected Areas

PLoS Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Balmford, Andrew ^a   Green, Jonathan M H ^a,b   Anderson, Michael ^c   Beresford, James ^a,d   Huang, Charles ^c   Naidoo, Robin ^c   Walpole, Matt ^e   Manica, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WORLD WILDLIFE FUND   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSUMER; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCOME; INVESTMENT; POPULATION SIZE; RECREATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; TOURISM; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAVEL;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORTH AMERICA; RECREATION; TRAVEL;

EID: 84924082570     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002074     Document Type: Article

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