Biodiversity offsetting and conservation: Reframing nature to save it

ORYX

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 23-31

  Apostolopoulou, Evangelia ^a   Adams, William M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity units; conservation banking; conservation credits; metrics; mitigation hierarchy; offsets; offsetting

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CREDIT PROVISION; ECONOMIC GROWTH; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; LITERATURE REVIEW; MITIGATION; NATURE CONSERVATION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84943804942     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605315000782     Document Type: Review

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