Exploring the basic ecological unit: Ecosystem-like concepts in traditional societies

Ecosystems

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 409-415

  Berkes, Fikret ^a   Kislalioglu, Mina ^a   Folke, Carl ^b,c   Gadgil, Madhav ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Ecological anthropology; Ecosystem; Human ecology; Traditional ecological knowledge; Watershed

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001336358     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100219900034     Document Type: Review

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