Difficulties in achieving social sustainability in a biosphere reserve

International Journal of Conservation Science

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 123-136

  Petrisor, Alexandru Ionut ^a,b   Petre, Raluca ^b   Meiţă, Vasile ^b  

^a ION MINCU UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM   (Romania)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN MICROTECHNOLOGIES   (Romania)

Author keywords

Biosphere reserve; Conflict; Conservation; Danube delta; Demography; Development; Society; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959324723     PISSN: 2067533X     EISSN: 20678223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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