What evidence exists on the impact of governance type on the conservation effectiveness of forest protected areas? Knowledge base and evidence gaps

Environmental Evidence

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  MacUra, Biljana ^a,b   Secco, Laura ^a   Pullin, Andrew S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Co management; Community conservation; Decisions; Institutions; Participation; People parks interaction; Private protected areas; State parks; Top down conservation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954483363     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20472382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13750-015-0051-6     Document Type: Article

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