A Wilderness Approach under the World Heritage Convention

Conservation Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 228-235

  Kormos, Cyril F ^a,b   Bertzky, Bastian ^c,d   Jaeger, Tilman ^e   Shi, Yichuan ^d,f   Badman, Tim ^d   Hilty, Jodi A ^g   Mackey, Brendan G ^h   Mittermeier, Russell A ⁱ   Locke, Harvey ^j   Osipova, Elena ^d   Watson, James E M ^k,l  

^a WILD Foundation   (United States)

^b International Union for Conservation of Nature   (Switzerland)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^d IUCN   (Switzerland)

^e Independent Consultant and Adviser to the IUCN World Heritage Programme   (Brazil)

^f UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^g Independent Ecologist   (United States)

^h GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁱ Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

^j Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative   (Canada)

^k WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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Author keywords

Climate change; conservation; wilderness; World Heritage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946049092     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12205     Document Type: Article

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