Indigenous past climate knowledge as cultural built-in object and its accuracy

Ecology and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Leclerc, Christian ^a   Mwongera, Caroline ^b   Camberlin, Pierre ^c   Boyard Micheau, Joseph ^c  

^a UMR AGAP   (France)

^b MONTPELLIER SUPAGRO   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Climate change; Drought; Ecological anthropology; Fuzzy logic; Kenya; Meru; Traditional ecological knowledge

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANTHROPOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT; FARMERS KNOWLEDGE; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE; RAINFALL; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

EASTERN PROVINCE [KENYA]; KENYA; MERU;

EID: 84891857871     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-05896-180422     Document Type: Article

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