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Title

Bridging scales and knowledge systems : concepts and applications in ecosystem assessment / edited by Walter V. Reid [and others].

Publication

Washington : Island Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors

• Reid, Walter V., 1956-
• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (Program)

Description

xii, 351 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (some color); 23 cm

Subjects

• Ecosystem management
• Human ecology

Note

• "A contribution to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment"--P [iii].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Introduction / Walter V. Reid, Fikret Berkes, Thomas J. Wilbanks and Doris Capistrano -- Ch. 2. How scale matters : some concepts and findings / Thomas J. Wilbanks -- Ch. 3. The politics of scale in environmental assessments / Louis Lebel -- Ch. 4. Assessing ecosystem services at different scales in the Portugal millennium ecosystem assessment / Henrique M. Pereira, Tiago Domingos and Luis Vicente -- 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 / Chris Davis -- Ch. 6. Scales of government in carbon sinks : global priorities and local realities / Emily Boyd -- Ch. 7. What counts as local knowledge in global environmental assessments and conventions? / J. Peter Brosius -- Ch. 8. Bridging the gap or crossing a bridge? : indigenous knowledge and the language of law and policy / Michael Davis -- Ch. 9. Mobilizing knowledge for integrated ecosystem assessments / Christo Fabricius, Robert Scholes and Georgina Cundill -- Ch. 10. Keep it simple and be relevant : the first ten years of the Arctic borderlands ecological knowledge co-op / Joan Eamer -- Ch. 11. Cosmovisions and environmental governance : the case of in situ conservation of native cultivated plants and their wild relatives in Peru / Jorge Ishizawa -- Ch. 12. Harmonizing traditional and scientific knowledge systems in rainfall prediction and utilization / Rengalakshmi Raj -- Ch. 13. Managing people's knowledge : an Indian case study of building bridges from local to global and from oral to scientific knowledge / Yogesh Gokhale, Madhav Gadgil, Anil Gupta, Riya Sinha and K. P. (Prabha) Achar -- Ch. 14. Barriers to local-level ecosystem assessment and participatory management in Brazil / Cristiana S. Seixas -- Ch. 15. Integrating epistemologies through scenarios / Elena Bennett and Monika Zurek -- Ch. 16. The politics of bridging scales and epistemologies : science and democracy in global environmental governance / Clark Miller and Paul Erickson -- Ch. 17. Conclusions : bridging scales and knowledge systems / Fikret Berkes, Walter V. Reid, Thomas J. Wilbanks and Doris Capistrano.

ISBN

• 1597260371 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9781597260374 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 159726038X (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781597260381 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006010082

OCLC

• OCM65400239
• 65400239
• SCSB-5297577

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries