Local perceptions of climate variability and change in tropical forests of Papua, Indonesia

Ecology and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Boissière, Manuel ^a,b   Locatelli, Bruno ^a,b   Sheil, Douglas ^b,c,d   Padmanaba, Michael ^b   Sadjudin, Ermayanti ^e  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)   (Indonesia)

^c Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation ITFC   (Uganda)

^d SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive strategy; Coping mechanism; Deforestation; Ecosystem services; Gender; Seasonality; Traditional ecological knowledge

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; COPING STRATEGY; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GENDER; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PERCEPTION; SEASONALITY; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; TROPICAL FOREST;

INDONESIA; PAPUA [(PRV) INDONESIA];

EID: 84891853238     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-05822-180413     Document Type: Article

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