People's Seas: "Ethno-Oceanography" as an Interdisciplinary Means to Approach Marine Ecosystem Change

World Fisheries: A Social-Ecological Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 120-136

  Gasalla, Maria A ^a   Diegues, Antonio C S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Climate change; EAF; Ethno oceanography; Fisher's oceanological knowledge; Fisheries; Fishers; Global change; Human perception; Marine ecosystem change; Socialecological systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886163227     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444392241.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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