Expert and Generalist Local Knowledge about Land-cover Change on South Africa's Wild Coast: Can Local Ecological Knowledge Add Value to Science?

Local ecological knowledge (LEK) can shed light on ecosystem change, especially in under-researched areas such as South Africa's Wild Coast. However, for ecosystem planning purposes, it is necessary to assess the accuracy and validity of LEK, and determine where such knowledge is situated in a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nigel Chalmers, Christo Fabricius
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2007-06-01
Series:Ecology and Society
Subjects:
GIS
Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss1/art10/

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