Integrating Indigenous Knowledge and GIS for Participatory Natural Resource Management: State-of-the-Practice

Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-13

  Tripathi, Nitesh ^a   Bhattarya, Shefali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographical Information Systems; Indigenous Knowledge; Participatory Natural Resource Management

Indexed keywords

EID: 26844490603     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16814835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1681-4835.2004.tb00112.x     Document Type: Article

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