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Title Bridging scales and knowledge systems : concepts and applications in ecosystem assessment / edited by Walter V. Reid [and others]
Published Washington, D.C. : Island Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 351 pages) : illustrations, maps (some color)
Series A contribution to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment series.
Contents How scale matters / Thomas J. Wilbanks -- Politics of scale in environmental assessments / Louis Lebel -- Assessing ecosystem services at different scales in the portugal millennium ecosystem assessment / Henrique M. Pereira, Tiago Domingos and Luis Vicente -- Synthesis of data and methods across scales to connnect local policy decisions to regional envioronmental conditions / Chris Davis -- Scales of governance in carbon sinks / Emily Boyd -- What counts as local knowledge in global environmental assessments and conventions / J. Peter Brosius -- Bridging the gap or crossing a bridge? / Michael Davis -- Mobilizing knowledge for integrated ecosystem assessments / Christo Fabricius, Robert Scholes and Georgina Cundill -- Keep it simple and be relevant / Joan Eamer -- Cosmovisions and environmental governance / Jorge Ishizawa -- Harmonizing traditional and scientific knowledge systems in rainfall prediction and utilization / Rengalakshmi Raj -- Managing people's knowledge / Yogesh Gokhale [and others] -- Barriers to local-level ecosystem assessment and participatory management in Brazil / Christiana S. Seixas -- Integrating epistemologies through scenarios / Elena Bennett and Monika Zurek -- Politics of bridging scales and epistemologies / Clark Miller and Paul Erickson
Notes "A contribution to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment"--P [iii]
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Ecosystem management.
Human ecology.
human ecology.
NATURE -- Animals -- Wildlife.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biological Diversity.
Ecosystem management
Human ecology
Humanökologie
Umweltanalyse
Umweltindikator
Ökosystem
Gestion des écosystèmes -- Actes de congrès.
Écologie humaine -- Actes de congrès.
Genre/Form Aufsatzsammlung.
Form Electronic book
Author Reid, Walter V., 1956-
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (Program)
LC no. 2006010082
ISBN 9781435606425
1435606426
9781597268400
1597268402