Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems - Concepts and Applications in Ecosystem Assessment

Informationen zum Autor Walter V. Reid is a consulting professor with the Stanford Institute for the Environment in Stanford, California, and was the Director of the Millennuim Ecosystem Assessment. Fikret Berkes is professor of natural resources and Canada Research Chair in Community-Based Resource Management at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. Thomas J. Wilbanks is a Corporate Research Fellow and Leader of Global Change and Developing Country Programs at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Doris Capistrano is Director of the Forests and Governance Programme at the Center for International Forestry Research in Bogor, Indonesia. Klappentext Drawing on the groundbreaking work of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems will be indispensable for future efforts to conduct ecosystem assessments around the world. Zusammenfassung Brings together a group of world-class scientists in an effort to build a formal framework for linking local and indigenous knowledge with the global scientific enterprise. This book explores the challenges! costs! and benefits of bridging scales and knowledge systems in assessment processes and in resource management.

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• Authors: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Walter V. (EDT)/ Berkes Reid, Walter V. Berkes Reid, World Resources Institute, World Resources Institute Millennium Ecosystem Ass
• Assisted by: Fikret Berkes (Editor), Doris Capistrano (Editor), Walter Reid (Editor), Walter V. Reid (Editor), Thomas Wilbanks (Editor), Thomas J. Wilbanks (Editor)
• Publisher: Island Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.10.2006
• EAN: 9781597260381
• ISBN: 978-1-59726-038-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology