Fit in the body: Matching embodied cognition with social-ecological systems

Ecology and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Hukkinen, Janne I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adaptive cycle; Adaptive management; Blending; Cognitive anthropology; Cognitive linguistics; Conceptual integration; Embodied cognition; environmental policy; neoclassical economics; panarchy; social ecological systems; socioecological systems

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ANTHROPOLOGY; COGNITION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; NEOCLASSICAL THEORY; SURVIVAL;

EID: 84871958508     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-05241-170430     Document Type: Article

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