"Biases" in Adaptive Natural Resource Management

Conservation Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 388-396

  Iftekhar, Md Sayed ^a   Pannell, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Behavioral biases; Decision making; Environmental management; Natural resource management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955361674     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12189     Document Type: Article

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