Digital Games and Biodiversity Conservation

Conservation Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 118-124

  Sandbrook, Chris ^a,b   Adams, William M ^b   Monteferri, Bruno ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Peruvian Society for Environmental Law   (Peru)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Citizen science; Conservation; Digital games; Gamification; Serious games; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928173625     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12113     Document Type: Note

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