
Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems
Concepts and Applications in Ecosystem Assessment
Island Press
Published on 30. October 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-1-59726-038-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Washington
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 153 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-59726-038-1 (9781597260381)
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Ecosystem Assessment Millennium | Resources Institute World | Walter Reid
Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems
Concepts and Applications in Ecosystem Assessment
E-Book
04/2013
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
€44.99
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Persons
Walter V. Reid is a consulting professor with the Stanford Institute for the Environment, Stanford, California, and was the Director of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Fikret Berkes is professor of natural resources and Canada Research Chair in Community-Based Resource Management, at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. Thomas J. Wilbanks is a Corporate Research Fellow and Leader of Global Change and Developing Country Programs at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Doris Capistrano is Director of the Forests and Governance Programme at the Center for International Forestry Research in Bogor, Indonesia.