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Ecological Knowledge Among Communities, Managers and Scientists: Bridging Divergent Perspectives to Improve Forest Management Outcomes

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2016

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Rist, Lucy, Shackleton, Charlie, Gadamus, Lily, Chapin, F. Stuart, Gowda, C. Made, Setty, Siddappa, Kannan, Ramesh, and Shaanker, R. Uma, 2016, Ecological Knowledge Among Communities, Managers and Scientists: Bridging Divergent Perspectives to Improve Forest Management Outcomes: Environmental Management, v. 57, no. 4, p. 798-813.

Summary

Multiple actors are typically involved in forest management, namely communities, managers and researchers. In such cases, suboptimal management outcomes may, in addition to other factors, be symptomatic of a divergence in perspectives among these actors driven by fundamental differences in ecological knowledge. We examine the degree of congruence between the understandings of actors surrounding key issues of management concern in three case studies from tropical, subtropical and boreal forests. We identify commonly encountered points of divergence in ecological knowledge relating to key management processes and issues. We use these to formulate seven hypotheses about differences in the bodies of knowledge that frequently underlie communication [...]

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  • LC MAP - Landscape Conservation Management and Analysis Portal
  • Northwest Boreal Landscape Conservation Cooperative

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DOI http://sciencebase.gov/vocab/identifierScheme 10.1007/s00267-015-0647-1
ISSN http://sciencebase.gov/vocab/identifierScheme 1432-1009

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