Advancing urban ecosystem governance in New York City: Shifting towards a unified perspective for conservation management

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 62, Issue , 2016, Pages 127-132

  Forgione, Helen M ^a   Pregitzer, Clara C ^a   Charlop Powers, Sarah ^a   Gunther, Bram ^a,b  

^a The Nature Conservancy   (United States)

^b Natural Resources Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Conservation; Forest management; Natural area; New York City; Urban parkland

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CITY PLANNING; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; NEW YORK; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION; VEGETATION;

EID: 84959238034     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2016.02.012     Document Type: Article

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