Profiling unauthorized natural resource users for better targeting of conservation interventions

Conservation Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1636-1646

  Harrison, Mariel ^a   Baker, Julia ^b,c   Twinamatsiko, Medard ^d   Milner Gulland, E J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PARSONS BRINCKERHOFF   (United States)

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

^d Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Mountain gorillas; Natural resource use; Poaching; Poverty; Resentment; Uganda; Unmatched count technique

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LEGAL RIGHTS; NATURAL RESOURCE; POACHING; POVERTY; PRIMATE; PROTECTED AREA; RESOURCE USE;

BWINDI IMPENETRABLE NATIONAL PARK; UGANDA;

ANIMALIA; GORILLA GORILLA BERINGEI;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; HUMAN; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MOTIVATION; NATURAL RESOURCE; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECREATIONAL PARK; SOCIOECONOMICS; UGANDA;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FORESTS; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; NATURAL RESOURCES; PARKS, RECREATIONAL; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UGANDA;

EID: 84955192870     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12575     Document Type: Article

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