Forty-three years of ramsar and urban wetlands

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 32, Issue , 2015, Pages 57-66

  Hettiarachchi, Missaka ^a   Morrison, T H ^b   McAlpine, Clive ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Emerging cities; Environmental governance; Environmental justice; Ramsar convention; Urban socio ecological systems

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; LANDSCAPE; POLICY MAKING; RAMSAR CONVENTION; URBAN AREA; WETLAND MANAGEMENT;

COLOMBO [WESTERN PROVINCE]; INDIA; KOLKATA; SRI LANKA; WEST BENGAL; WESTERN PROVINCE [SRI LANKA];

EID: 84929207021     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.02.009     Document Type: Article

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