Integrating regional conservation priorities for multiple objectives into national policy

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Beger, Maria ^a   McGowan, Jennifer ^a   Treml, Eric A ^b   Green, Alison L ^c   White, Alan T ^c   Wolff, Nicholas H ^a   Klein, Carissa J ^a   Mumby, Peter J ^a   Possingham, Hugh P ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; INTEGRATED APPROACH; NATIONAL PLANNING; POLICY ANALYSIS; TRADE-OFF;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FAUNA; INFORMATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NATIONAL POLICY; NONHUMAN; POLICY; ANIMAL; CORAL REEF; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; HUMAN; MANAGEMENT;

ANTHOZOA;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CORAL REEFS; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; HUMANS; POLICY MAKING;

EID: 84941686683     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9208     Document Type: Article

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