Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems [[electronic resource] ] : Concepts and Applications in Ecosystem Assessment : A Contribution to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778102303321
• Autore: Reid Walter V
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, : Island Press, 2006
• ISBN: 1-59726-840-2; 1-4356-0642-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (362 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BerkesFikret; WilbanksThomas J
• Disciplina: 333.95
• Soggetti: Ecosystem management; Human ecology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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 Assessments""; ""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 the 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""