Living with invasive plants in the anthropocene: The importance of understanding practice and experience

Conservation and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 311-318

  Head, Lesley ^a   Larson, Brendon M H ^b   Hobbs, Richard ^c   Atchison, Jennifer ^a   Gill, Nick ^a   Kull, Christian ^d,e   Rangan, Haripriya ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anthropocene; Australia; Canada; invasive plant management; policy; pragmatism; social science; stakeholders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928691779     PISSN: 09724923     EISSN: 09753133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0972-4923.170411     Document Type: Conference Paper

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