Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems : Concepts and Applications in Ecosystem Assessment : A Contribution to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.

Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems : Concepts and Applications in Ecosystem Assessment : A Contribution to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.

Bridging the gap between local knowledge and western science is essential to understanding the world's ecosystems and the ways in which humans interact with and shape those ecosystems. This book brings together a group of world-class scientists in an unprecedented effort to build a formal frame...

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Main Author: Reid, Walter V.
Other Authors: Berkes, Fikret, Wilbanks, Thomas J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington : Island Press, 2006.
Series:Millennium Ecosystem Assessment series.
Subjects:
Ecosystem management.
Human ecology.
human ecology.
Ecosystem management
Human ecology
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Table of Contents:
  • About Island Press
  • Title Page
  • Copyrights Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Ch. 1: Introduction
  • BRIDGING SCALES
  • Ch. 2: How Scale Matters: Some Concepts and Findings
  • Ch. 3: The Politics of Scale in Environmental Asssessments
  • Ch. 4: Assessing Ecosystem Services at Different Scales in the Portugal Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
  • Ch. 5: A Synthesis of Data and Methods across Scales to Connect Local Policy Decisions to Regional Environmental Conditions: The Case of the Cascadia Scorecard
  • Ch. 6: Scales of Governance in Carbon Sinks: Global Priorities and Local RealitiesBRIDGING KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS
  • Ch. 7: What Counts as Local Knowledge in Global Environmental Assessments and Conventions?
  • Ch. 8: Bridging the Gap or Crossing a Bridge? Indigenous Knowledge and teh Language of Law and Policy
  • Ch. 9: Mobilizing Knowledge for Integrated Ecosyetem Assessments
  • CASE STUDIES
  • Ch. 10: Keep it Simple and Be Relevant: The First Ten Years of the Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Co-op
  • Ch. 11: Cosmovisions and Environmental Governance: The case of In Situ Conservation of Native Cultivated Plants and Their Wild Relatives in PeruCh. 12: Harmonizing Traditional and Scientific Knowledge Systems in Rainfall Prediction and Utilization
  • Ch. 13: Managing People's Knowledge: An Indian Case Study of Building Bridges from Local to Global and from Oral to Scientific Knowledge
  • Ch. 14: Barriers to Local-level Ecosystem Assessment and Participatory Management in Brazil
  • Appendix to Ch. 14: Cases of Participatory Fisheries Management in Brazil
  • Ch. 15: Integrating Epistemologies through ScenariosSYNTHESIS
  • Ch. 16: The Politics of Bridging Scales and Epistemologies: Science and Democracy in Global Environmental Governance
  • Ch. 17: Conclusions: Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems
  • Notes
  • List of Authors
  • Index

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