Community‐based comanagement: Sharing responsibility when tolerance for wildlife is exceeded

Human Dimensions of Wildlife

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 34-49

  Schusler, Tania M ^a   Chase, Lisa C ^a   Decker, Daniel J ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Community based comanagement; Social capital; Stakeholder; Wildlife management; Wildlife stakeholder acceptance capacity (WSAC)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971601874     PISSN: 10871209     EISSN: 1533158X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10871200009359186     Document Type: Article

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