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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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Springer
2011
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