Policy-driven versus Evidence-based Conservation: A Review of Political Targets and Biological Needs
Open Access
- 1 January 2005
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 55 (11), 989-995
- https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2005)055[0989:pvecar]2.0.co;2
Abstract
“How much is enough?” is a question that conservationists, scientists, and policymakers have struggled with for years in conservation planning. To anKeywords
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