Bridging scales and knowledge systems : concepts and applications in ecosystem assessment - Reid, Walter V., 1956-; Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (Program) (Washington, D.C. : Island Press, 2006)
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.
"A contribution to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment"--P [iii].
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Keywords: Ecosystem management; Human ecology; Écosystèmes -- Gestion; Écologie humaine; 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.; Aufsatzsammlung