Does the effectiveness of forest protected areas differ conditionally on their type of governance?

Environmental Evidence

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Macura, Biljana ^a,b   Secco, Laura ^a   Pullin, Andrew S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessment; Biodiversity conservation; Conservation success; Ecological outcomes; Evaluation; Evidence synthesis; Participation; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930275319     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20472382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2047-2382-2-14     Document Type: Review

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