Bridging Scales And Knowledge Systems

Bridging the gap between local knowledge and western science is essential to understanding the worlds 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 enterprises. 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. Book jacket.

Walter V. Reid is director of Conservation Science at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and was the Director of the Millennium 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 of International Forestry Research in Bogor, Indonesia.