Bridging Scales And Knowledge Systems

by Reid, Walter V.; Berkes, Fikret; Wilbanks, Thomas; Capistrano, Doris

• ISBN13: 9781597260374
• ISBN10: 1597260371
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-30
• Publisher: Island Pr

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introducion	p. 1
Bridging Scales	p. 19
How Scale Matters: Some Concepts and Findings	p. 21
The Politics of Scale in Environmental Assessments	p. 37
Assessing Ecosystem Services at Different Scales in the Portugal Millennium Ecosystem Assessments	p. 59
A Synthesis of Data and Methods across Scales to Connect Local Policy Decisions to Regional Environmental Conditions: The Case of the Cascadia Scorecard	p. 81
Scales of Governance in Carbon Sink: Global Priorities and Local Realities	p. 105
Bridging Knowledge Systems	p. 127
What Counts as Local Knowledge in Global Environmental Assessments and Conventions?	p. 129
Bridging the Gap or Crossing a Bridge? Indigenous Knowledge and the Language of Law and Policy	p. 145
Mobilizing Knowledge for Integrated Ecosystem Assessments	p. 165
Case Studies	p. 183
Keep It Simple and Be Relevant: The First Ten Years of the Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Co-op	p. 185
Cosmovisions and Environmental Governance: The Case of In Situ Conservation of Native Cultivated Plants and Their Wild Relatives in Peru	p. 207
Harmonizing Traditional and Scientific Knowledge Systems in Rainfall Prediction and Utilization	p. 225
Managing People's Knowledge: An Indian Case Study of Building Bridges from Local to Global and from Local to Global and from Oral to Scientific Knowledge	p. 241
Barriers to Local-level Ecosystem Assessment and Participatory Management in Brazil	p. 255
Integrating Epistemologies through Scenarios	p. 275
Synthesis	p. 295
The Politics of Bridging Scales and Epistemologies: Science and Democracy in Global Environmental Governance	p. 297
Conclusions:Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems
Notes	p. 333
List of Authors	p. 337
Index	p. 343
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