Testing Focus Groups as a Tool for Connecting Indigenous and Local Knowledge on Abundance of Natural resources with Science-Based Land Management Systems

Conservation Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 380-389

  Danielsen, Finn ^a   Jensen, Per M ^b   Burgess, Neil D ^b,c,d   Coronado, Indiana ^e   Holt, Sune ^e   Poulsen, Michael K ^f   Rueda, Ricardo M ^e   Skielboe, Thomas ^f   Enghoff, Martin ^f   Hemmingsen, Louise H ^a   Sørensen, Marten ^b   Pirhofer Walzl, Karin ^a,g  

^a Nordisk Fond for Miljø og Udvikling ^*  (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c WORLD WILDLIFE FUND   (United States)

^d UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^e Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua   (Nicaragua)

^f Nordic Agency for Development and Ecology   (Denmark)

^g LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Community based natural resource management; Cross cultural management; Indigenous and local knowledge systems; Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services; Knowledge integration; Multiple evidence base

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899408297     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12100     Document Type: Article

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