Are alternative livelihood projects effective at reducing local threats to specified elements of biodiversity and/or improving or maintaining the conservation status of those elements?

Environmental Evidence

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Roe, Dilys ^a   Booker, Francesca ^a,b   Day, Mike ^a,b   Zhou, Wen ^b   Allebone Webb, Sophie ^c   Hill, Nicholas A O ^c,d   Kumpel, Noelle ^c   Petrokofsky, Gillian ^b,e   Redford, Kent ^f   Russell, Diane ^g   Shepherd, Gill ^h   Wright, Juliet ^c,i   Sunderland, Terry C H ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^c ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f Archipelago Consulting   (United States)

^g UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^h LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alternative livelihood; Biodiversity; Community attitudes; Conservation; Conservation threats; Systematic map; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

EID: 84950303218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20472382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13750-015-0048-1     Document Type: Review

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