Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems
Concepts and Applications in Ecosystem Assessment
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.
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CHAPTER 1: Introduction
WALTER V. REID, FIKRET BERKES, THOMAS J. WILBANKS, AND DORIS CAPISTRANO
BRIDGING SCALES
CHAPTER 2: How Scale Matters: Some Concepts and Findings
THOMAS J. WILBANKS
CHAPTER 3: The Politics of Scale in Environmental Assessments
LOUIS LEBEL
CHAPTER 4: Assessing Ecosystem Services at Different Scales
in the Portugal Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
HENRIQUE M. PEREIRA, TIAGO DOMINGOS, AND LUÍS VICENTE
CHAPTER 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
CHAPTER 6: Scales of Governance in Carbon Sinks:
Global Priorities and Local Realities
EMILY BOYD
BRIDGING KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS
CHAPTER 7: What Counts as Local Knowledge in Global
Environmental Assessments and Conventions?
J. PETER BROSIUS
CHAPTER 8: Bridging the Gap or Crossing a Bridge?
Indigenous Knowledge and the Language of Law and Policy
MICHAEL DAVIS
CHAPTER 9: Mobilizing Knowledge for Integrated
Ecosystem Assessments
CHRISTO FABRICIUS, ROBERT SCHOLES, AND GEORGINA CUNDILL
CASE STUDIES
CHAPTER 10: Keep It Simple and Be Relevant: The First Ten
Years of the Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Co-op
JOAN EAMER
CHAPTER 11: Cosmovisions and Environmental Governance:
The Case of In Situ Conservation of Native Cultivated Plants
and Their Wild Relatives in Peru
JORGE ISHIZAWA
CHAPTER 12: Harmonizing Traditional and Scientific Knowledge
Systems in Rainfall Prediction and Utilization
RENGALAKSHMI RAJ
CHAPTER 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
CHAPTER 14: Barriers to Local-level Ecosystem Assessment
and Participatory Management in Brazil
CRISTIANA S. SEIXAS
CHAPTER 15: Integrating Epistemologies through Scenarios
ELENA BENNETT AND MONIKA ZUREK
SYNTHESIS
CHAPTER 16: The Politics of Bridging Scales and Epistemologies:
Science and Democracy in Global Environmental Governance
CLARK MILLER AND PAUL ERICKSON
CHAPTER 17: Conclusions: Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems
FIKRET BERKES, WALTER V. REID, THOMAS J. WILBANKS, AND DORIS CAPISTRANO
NOTES
LIST OF AUTHORS
INDEX
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