Assessing the effectiveness of protected areas: paradoxes call for pluralism in evaluating conservation performance

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  2009

• Venue

  Diversity and Distributions

• Publication date

  2009-01-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2008.00522.x
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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