Challenges and Prospects for Scaling-up Ecological Restoration to Meet International Commitments: Colombia as a Case Study

Conservation Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 213-220

  Murcia, Carolina ^a,b   Guariguata, Manuel R ^a   Andrade, Ángela ^c   Andrade, Germán Ignacio ^d,e   Aronson, James ^f,g   Escobar, Elsa Matilde ^h   Etter, Andrés ⁱ   Moreno, Flavio H ^j   Ramírez, Wilson ^d   Montes, Elena ⁱ  

^a CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Peru)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA   (Colombia)

^c Wildlife Conservation Society Colombia   (Colombia)

^d INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN DE RECURSOS BIOLÓGICOS ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Colombia)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^f MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^g CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^h Subdirección de Desarrollo Local y Cambio Global   (Colombia)

ⁱ PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA   (Colombia)

^j UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

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Author keywords

Country wide assessment; environmental governance; monitoring; stakeholder participation; top down approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945943720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12199     Document Type: Article

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