Keywords:
Ecosystem management.
;
Human ecology.
;
Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (362 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781597268400
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=3317423
DDC:
333.95
Language:
English
Note:
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.
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Notes -- List of Authors -- Index.
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