Bridging scales and knowledge systems : concepts and applications in ecosystem assessment /
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| Imprint: | Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c2006. |
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| Description: | xii, 351 p. : ill., maps (some col.) ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | A contribution to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Millennium Ecosystem Assessment series. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6204178 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introducion
- Bridging Scales
- Chapter 2. How Scale Matters: Some Concepts and Findings
- Chapter 3. The Politics of Scale in Environmental Assessments
- Chapter 4. Assessing Ecosystem Services at Different Scales in the Portugal Millennium Ecosystem Assessments
- Chapter 5. A Synthesis of Data and Methods across Scales to Connect Local Policy Decisions to Regional Environmental Conditions: The Case of the Cascadia Scorecard
- Chapter 6. Scales of Governance in Carbon Sink: Global Priorities and Local Realities
- Bridging Knowledge Systems
- Chapter 7. What Counts as Local Knowledge in Global Environmental Assessments and Conventions?
- Chapter 8. Bridging the Gap or Crossing a Bridge? Indigenous Knowledge and the Language of Law and Policy
- Chapter 9. Mobilizing Knowledge for Integrated Ecosystem Assessments
- Case Studies
- Chapter 10. Keep It Simple and Be Relevant: The First Ten Years of the Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Co-op
- Chapter 11. Cosmovisions and Environmental Governance: The Case of In Situ Conservation of Native Cultivated Plants and Their Wild Relatives in Peru
- Chapter 12. Harmonizing Traditional and Scientific Knowledge Systems in Rainfall Prediction and Utilization
- Chapter 13. Managing People's Knowledge: An Indian Case Study of Building Bridges from Local to Global and from Local to Global and from Oral to Scientific Knowledge
- Chapter 14. Barriers to Local-level Ecosystem Assessment and Participatory Management in Brazil
- Chapter 15. Integrating Epistemologies through Scenarios
- Synthesis
- Chapter 16. The Politics of Bridging Scales and Epistemologies: Science and Democracy in Global Environmental Governance
- Chapter 17. Conclusions:Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems
- Notes
- List of Authors
- Index
