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

✍ Scribed by World Resources Institute, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

• Publisher: Island Press
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 362
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

159726038X......Page 1
About Island Press......Page 3
Title Page......Page 6
Copyrights Page......Page 7
Table of Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Ch. 1: Introduction......Page 14
BRIDGING SCALES......Page 31
Ch. 2: How Scale Matters: Some Concepts and Findings......Page 32
Ch. 3: The Politics of Scale in Environmental Asssessments......Page 47
Ch. 4: Assessing Ecosystem Services at Different Scales in the Portugal Millennium Ecosystem Assessment......Page 68
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......Page 89
Ch. 6: Scales of Governance in Carbon Sinks: Global Priorities and Local Realities......Page 117
BRIDGING KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS......Page 139
Ch. 7: What Counts as Local Knowledge in Global Environmental Assessments and Conventions?......Page 140
Ch. 8: Bridging the Gap or Crossing a Bridge? Indigenous Knowledge and teh Language of Law and Policy......Page 156
Ch. 9: Mobilizing Knowledge for Integrated Ecosyetem Assessments......Page 175
CASE STUDIES......Page 193
Ch. 10: Keep it Simple and Be Relevant: The First Ten Years of the Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Co-op......Page 194
Ch. 11: Cosmovisions and Environmental Governance: The case of In Situ Conservation of Native Cultivated Plants and Their Wild Relatives in Peru......Page 216
Ch. 12: Harmonizing Traditional and Scientific Knowledge Systems in Rainfall Prediction and Utilization......Page 234
Ch. 13: Managing People's Knowledge: An Indian Case Study of Building Bridges from Local to Global and from Oral to Scientific Knowledge......Page 249
Ch. 14: Barriers to Local-level Ecosystem Assessment and Participatory Management in Brazil......Page 262
Appendix to Ch. 14: Cases of Participatory Fisheries Management in Brazil......Page 282
Ch. 15: Integrating Epistemologies through Scenarios......Page 288
SYNTHESIS......Page 308
Ch. 16: The Politics of Bridging Scales and Epistemologies: Science and Democracy in Global Environmental Governance......Page 309
Ch. 17: Conclusions: Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems......Page 327
Notes......Page 344
List of Authors......Page 348
Index......Page 352