Assessing stakeholders' perceptions and values towards social-ecological systems using participatory methods

Ecological Processes

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Villamor, Grace B ^a,b   Palomo, Ignacio ^c,d   Santiago, Cesar A López ^d   Oteros Rozas, Elisa ^d   Hill, Joe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b ICRAF World Agroforestry Centre Bogor   (Indonesia)

^c BASQUE CENTRE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE BC3   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Actors; Ecological knowledge; Ecosystem services; Social processes; Socio cultural valuation; Values

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONCRETE PAVEMENTS; CONSERVATION; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEMS; LAND USE; SOCIAL ASPECTS; WETLANDS;

ACTORS; ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; SOCIAL PROCESS; SOCIO-CULTURAL; VALUES;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

COASTAL WETLAND; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; KNOWLEDGE; LAND USE; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PERCEPTION; PROTECTED AREA; STAKEHOLDER;

INDONESIA; JAMBI [INDONESIA]; SPAIN;

EID: 85017161163     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21921709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13717-014-0022-9     Document Type: Article

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