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Author Reid, Walter V

Title Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems : Concepts and Applications in Ecosystem Assessment : A Contribution to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Published Washington : Island Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (362 pages)
Series A contribution to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment series.
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
Summary 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 framework for linking local and indigenous knowledge with the global scientific enterprise. Contributors explore the challenges, costs, and benefits of bridging scales and knowledge systems in assessment processes and in resource management. Case studies look at a variety of efforts to bridge scales, providing important lessons concerning what has worked, what has not, and the costs and benefits associated with those efforts. Drawing on the groundbreaking work of the Millennium Eco-system Assessment, Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems will be indispensable for future efforts to conduct ecosystem assessments around the world
Notes Print version record
Subject Ecosystem management.
Human ecology.
human ecology.
Ecosystem management
Human ecology
Form Electronic book
Author Berkes, Fikret
Wilbanks, Thomas J
ISBN 9781597268400
1597268402
1435606426
9781435606425