Traditional ecological knowledge among transhumant pastoralists in Mediterranean Spain
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Reinterpreting change in traditional ecological knowledge.
Much research on traditional ecological knowledge (hereafter TEK) has centred in 1) documenting fading knowledge (e.g., Ferguson and Messier 1997; Pieroni et al. 2004), 2) understanding the parallel changes in biological and cultural diversity (Maffi 2005; Harmon and Loh 2010), and 3) assessing the processes and drivers of change that lead to the loss of TEK (Benz et al. 2000; Kingsbury 2001; G...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecology and Society
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1708-3087
DOI: 10.5751/es-05597-180333