Approaches Used to Evaluate the Social Impacts of Protected Areas

Conservation Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 327-333

  de Lange, Emiel ^a   Woodhouse, Emily ^b,c   Milner Gulland, E J ^a,d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Wildlife Conservation Society   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

evaluation; Social impact; wellbeing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955099556     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12223     Document Type: Letter

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