Oil and gas development in the World Heritage and wider protected area network in sub-Saharan Africa

More than 25% of natural World Heritage (WH) sites worldwide are estimated to be under pressure from existing or future mining and energy activities (IUCN 2008; UNESCO 2009). However, that 'pressure' has yet to be quantitatively defined and assessed for many regions of the world. We conduc...

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Main Authors: Osti, M, Coad, L, Fisher, J, Bomhard, B, Hutton, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Springer 2011
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