Enhancing the Value and Validity of EIA: Serious Science to Protect Australia's Great Barrier Reef

Conservation Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 377-383

  Sheaves, Marcus ^a   Coles, Rob ^a   Dale, Pat ^b   Grech, Alana ^c   Pressey, Robert L ^a   Waltham, Nathan J ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

environmental impact assessment; Great Barrier Reef; peer review

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953239147     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12219     Document Type: Article

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