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Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems: Concepts and Applications in Ecosystem Assessment

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The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) was carried out between 2001 and 2005 to assess the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being and to establish the basis for actions needed to enhance the conservation and sustainable use of ecosystems and their contributions to human well-being. The MA was originally conceived as a global scientific assessment that would be modeled on two intergovernmental processes that have contributed significantly to policy development in relation to the problems of climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion: the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Ozone Assessment.

Bridging the gap between local knowledge and western science is essential to understanding the world's ecosystems and the ways in which humans interact with and shape those ecosystems. This book brings together a group of world-class scientists in an unprecedented effort to build a formal framework for linking local and indigenous knowledge with the global scientific enterprise. Contributors explore the challenges, costs, and benefits of bridging scales and knowledge systems in assessment processes and in resource management. Case studies look at a variety of efforts to bridge scales, providing important lessons concerning what has worked, what has not, and the costs and benefits associated with those efforts. Drawing on the groundbreaking work of the Millennium Eco-system Assessment, "Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems" will be indispensable for future efforts to conduct ecosystem assessments around the world.

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Protecting Your Library's Digital Sources: The Essential Guide to Planning and Preservation
Protecting Your Library's Digital Sources: The Essential Guide to Planning and Preservation
Today libraries, archives, and organizations of every size are creating websites with digital materials that they maintain day in and day out. Some repositories are digitizing written works in the public domain and putting them on the Web and on CD-ROM (or equivalent technology) to make them accessible to the public, with the twofold aim of (1)...
Mathematics and Computer Science II: Algorithms, Trees, Combinatorics and Probabilities (Trends in Mathematics)
Mathematics and Computer Science II: Algorithms, Trees, Combinatorics and Probabilities (Trends in Mathematics)

This is the second volume in a series of innovative proceedings entirely devoted to the connections between mathematics and computer science. Here mathematics and computer science are directly confronted and joined to tackle intricate problems in computer science with deep and innovative mathematical approaches.

The book...

Digital Sports Photography
Digital Sports Photography
I fly a lot in my job. Frequently, people sitting next to me on the plane ask me what I do for a living. When I tell them that I am a sports photographer, their response is usually something like this: “Wow, what a great job!” They’re right. Sports photography really is a great job.

Asports photographer captures the
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Particle Characterization : Light Scattering Methods (Particle Technology Series)
Particle Characterization : Light Scattering Methods (Particle Technology Series)
The importance of particle characterization in both the research and development, and the manufacture and quality control of materials and products that we use in our everyday lives is, in some sense, invisible to those of us not directly involved with these activities. Few of us know how particle size, shape, or surface characteristics can...
Imaging the Cheops Pyramid (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications)
Imaging the Cheops Pyramid (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications)

In this book Egyptian Archeology  and Mathematics meet.

The author is an expert in theories and applications in Solid Mechanics and Inverse Problems, a former professor at Ecole Polytechnique and now works with Electricité de France on maintenance operations on nuclear power plants. In the Autumn of 1986, after the...

Photoshop CS5: Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks
Photoshop CS5: Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks

Intermediate-level users learn to coax much more from Photoshop

Photoshop is the preferred image-editing software, with more than four million users worldwide. Professional photographers, Web designers, graphic designers, and serious photo hobbyists who already know earlier versions of Photoshop will expand their skills by...

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