Funding ecological restoration policy in practice-patterns of short-termism and regional biases

Land Use Policy

Volumn 52, Issue , 2016, Pages 439-453

  Borgström, Sara ^a   Zachrisson, Anna ^b   Eckerberg, Katarina ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ecological restoration; Governance; Nature conservation; Policy analysis; Project proliferation; Public administration

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; NATURE CONSERVATION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POLICY ANALYSIS; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

EID: 84955562348     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.01.004     Document Type: Article

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