Integration of Local Ecological Knowledge and Conventional Science: a Study of Seven Community-Based Forestry Organizations in the USA

Natural resource management decisions can be based on incomplete knowledge when they lack scientific research, monitoring, and assessment and/or simultaneously fail to draw on local ecological knowledge. Many community-based forestry organizations in the United States attempt to address these knowle...

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Main Authors: Heidi L. Ballard, Maria E. Fernandez-Gimenez, Victoria E. Sturtevant
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2008-12-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/art37/