When 'the environment' comes to visit: Local environmental knowledge in the far North of Russia

Environmental Values

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 167-186

  Karjalainen, Timo Pauli ^a   Habeck, Joachim Otto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental concern; Knowledge; Perception; The Komi Republic (Russia)

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; PERCEPTION; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

EURASIA; KOMI; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 3042856041     PISSN: 09632719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3197/0963271041159877     Document Type: Article

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