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

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : Island Press, c2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (362 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.95
• Soggetto topico: Ecosystem management; Human ecology
• Altri autori: ReidWalter V. <1956->
• Note generali: "A contribution to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment"--P [iii].
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• 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""
• Sommario/riassunto: Bridging the gap between local knowledge and western science is essential to understanding the world's ecosystems and the ways in which humans interact with and shape those ecosystems. This book brings together a group of world-class scientists in an unprecedented effort to build a formal framework for linking local and indigenous knowledge with the global scientific enterprise.Contributors explore the challenges, costs, and benefits of bridging scales and knowledge systems in assessment processes and in resource management. Case studies look at a variety of efforts to bridge scales, providing important lessons concerning what has worked, what has not, and the costs and benefits associated with those efforts. Drawing on the groundbreaking work of the Millennium Eco-system Assessment, Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems will be indispensable for future efforts to conduct ecosystem assessments around the world.
• Titolo autorizzato: Bridging scales and knowledge systems
• ISBN: 1-59726-840-2; 1-4356-0642-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910964302403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment series.