'Knowledge making': Issues in modelling local and indigenous ecological knowledge

Human Ecology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 119-130

  Barber, M ^a   Jackson, S ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Causality; Indigenous Australian societies; Indigenous ecological knowledge; Local knowledge; Modelling; Visualisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924574183     PISSN: 03007839     EISSN: 15729915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10745-015-9726-4     Document Type: Article

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