Expert and generalist local knowledge about land-cover change on South Africa's Wild Coast: Can local ecological knowledge add value to science?

Ecology and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Chalmers, Nigel ^a   Fabricius, Christo ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cultivation; Fire; GIS; Land cover change; Landscape ecology; Local ecological knowledge; Politics; Scientific knowledge; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FOREST COVER; GIS; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; WOODLAND;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 34447295356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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