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Factoring attitudes towards conflict risk into selection of protected areas for conservation
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Factoring attitudes towards conflict risk into selection of protected areas for conservation |
| Creator | Hammill, Edd Tulloch, A. I. Possingham, H. P. Strange, N. Wilson, K. A. |
| Description | The high incidence of armed conflicts in biodiverse regions poses significant challenges in achieving international conservation targets. Because attitudes towards risk vary, we assessed different strategies for protected area planning that reflected alternative attitudes towards the risk of armed conflicts. We find that ignoring conflict risk will deliver the lowest return on investment. Opting to completely avoid conflict-prone areas offers limited improvements and could lead to species... |
| Date | 2016-03-30T07:00:00Z |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Identifier | https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/wats_facpub/971 info:doi/10.1038/ncomms11042 https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/context/wats_facpub/article/1988/viewcontent/ncomms11042.pdf |
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| Source | Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications |
| Publisher | Hosted by Utah State University Libraries |
| Contributor | Nature Publishing Group |
| Subject | Environmental Sciences |
