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Linking Social and Ecological Systems for Resilience and Sustainability

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dc.contributor.author Berkes, Fikret en_US
dc.contributor.author Folke, Carl en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T15:16:01Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T15:16:01Z
dc.date.issued 1994 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2009-03-10 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2009-03-10 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/4352
dc.description.abstract "Traditional resource management systems or other local-level systems, based on the knowledge and experience of the resource users themselves, may have the potential to improve management of a number of ecosystems types. A considerable amount of evidence has accumulated to suggest that ecologically sensible indigenous practices have or had existed, for example, in the case of some tropical forests, island ecosystems, tropical fisheries, and semi-arid grazing lands. Given that Western resource management has not been all that successful in many of these environments, perhaps there are lessons to be learned from the cultural capital of societies which have elaborated these practices, a view echoed in Our Common Future. Ancient cultures and indigenous peoples do not have monopoly over ecological wisdom; there are cases of local, newly emergent or 'neo-traditional' resource management systems which cannot claim historical continuity over generations but which are nevertheless based on local knowledge and practice appropriately adapted to the ecological systems in which they occur." en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Beijer Discussion Paper Series no. 52 en_US
dc.subject sustainability en_US
dc.subject resource management en_US
dc.subject ecology en_US
dc.subject local knowledge en_US
dc.subject resilience en_US
dc.title Linking Social and Ecological Systems for Resilience and Sustainability en_US
dc.type Working Paper en_US
dc.publisher.workingpaperseries Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden en_US
dc.subject.sector General & Multiple Resources en_US


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