What's (not) on the map: Landscape features from participatory sketch mapping differ from local categories used in language

Land

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Wartmann, Flurina M ^a,b   Purves, Ross S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive mapping; Community mapping; Land use mapping; Landscape characterization; Landscape ethnoecology; Participatory mapping; Sketch maps

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044711784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2073445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/land6040079     Document Type: Article

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