Are alternative livelihood projects effective at reducing local threats to specified elements of biodiversity and/or improving or maintaining the conservation status of those elements?: A systematic review protocol

Environmental Evidence

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Roe, Dilys ^a   Day, Mike ^a,b   Booker, Francesca ^a,b   Zhou, Wen ^b   Allebone Webb, Sophie ^c   Kümpel, Noëlle ^c   Hill, Nicholas A O ^c,g   Wright, Juliet ^c,d   Rust, Niki ^a,h   Sunderland, Terry Ch ^b   Redford, Kent ^e   Petrokofsky, Gillian ^b,f  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^c ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e Archipelago Consulting   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alternative livelihoods; Biodiversity; Community attitudes and conservation threats; Conservation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934998127     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20472382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2047-2382-3-6     Document Type: Review

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