Indigenous knowledge and sea ice science: What can we learn from indigenous ice users?

SIKU: Knowing Our Ice: Documenting Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 357-376

  Eicken, Hajo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic observing network; Local indigenous knowledge; Sea ice geophysics; Sea ice system services; Sea ice use

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866317514     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8587-0_15     Document Type: Chapter

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