The moral basis for conservation: How is it affected by culture?

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 325-331

  Dickman, Amy ^a   Johnson, Paul J ^a   Van Kesteren, Freya ^a,b   MacDonald, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAND MANAGEMENT; PHILOSOPHY; WILD POPULATION;

EID: 84939521771     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/140056     Document Type: Article

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