More cool than tool: Equivoques, conceptual traps and weaknesses of ecological networks in environmental planning and conservation

Land Use Policy

Volumn 68, Issue , 2017, Pages 686-691

  Gippoliti, Spartaco ^a   Battisti, Corrado ^b  

^a Societ Italiana di Storia della Fauna   (Italy)

^b Torre Flavia LTER (Long Term Ecological Research) Station   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dogmatic approach; Linguistic uncertainness; Planning tool; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EID: 85028339609     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.08.001     Document Type: Article

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