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Sustainability of social–ecological systems under conservation projects: Lessons from a biodiversity hotspot in western China

2013-02-01

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The conflicts between ecological sustainability and economic development are difficult to resolve, especially in poverty-stricken rural areas. Unfortunately, extreme poverty and biodiversity hotspots are often geographically coincident. Here, we selected the Jinshui watershed, a biodiversity hotspot in China’s Qinling Mountains, to study the sustainability of the social–ecological systems under conservation projec...

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Literature Corpus work: 9d89f232-4a70-5e64-8ad3-09e74a2c7ded
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.08.021

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