Integrated conservation and development: Evaluating a community-based marine protected area project for equality of socioeconomic impacts

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1681, 2015, Pages

  Gurney, Georgina G ^a   Pressey, Robert L ^a   Cinner, Joshua E ^a   Pollnac, Richard ^b   Campbell, Stuart J ^c  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c Wildlife Conservation Society Bogor   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Comanagement; Equity; Impact evaluation; Integrated conservation and development; Poverty; Protected area

Indexed keywords

COMANAGEMENT; COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EQUITY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MARINE PARK; POLICY MAKING; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDONESIA; SULAWESI; SUNDA ISLES;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; INDONESIA; MARINE BIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RECREATIONAL PARK; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HUMANS; INDONESIA; MARINE BIOLOGY; PARKS, RECREATIONAL; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84944096725     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0277     Document Type: Article

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