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Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems : Concepts and Applications in Ecosystem Assessment.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington, D. C. : Island Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (362 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781597268400
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Bridging Scales and Knowledge SystemsDDC classification:
  • 333.95
LOC classification:
  • QH75
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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 Realities -- BRIDGING 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 Peru -- Ch. 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 Scenarios -- SYNTHESIS -- 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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Intro -- 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 Realities -- BRIDGING 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 Peru -- Ch. 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 Scenarios -- SYNTHESIS -- 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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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