Leithäuser, Henner (2019) Engaging in Local Ecological Knowledge Integration – An Ethnographic Approach to Understanding Social-Ecological System Change. The Case of the Tam Giang Lagoon, Vietnam. Master thesis.
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Abstract
Local ecological knowledge (LEK) represents a key link between resource users and their social-ecological system. Adaptive co-planning aims to integrate LEK to potentially complement scientific-based advice and ensure the sustainable use of environmental resources. This study investigates what important factors a planner need to consider when accessing LEK by applying an ethnographic participant observer approach in the case of a fishing village at the Tam Giang lagoon in central Vietnam. It shows that mutually reinforcing local perceptions and self-organized network adaptations are coevolving with system changes, adjusting to economic pressures and cannot be split into reductionist categories for knowledge integration purposes, but rather have to be seen as culturally embedded into their specific context.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Environmental & Infrastructure Planning |
| Supervisor: | Holzhacker, R. L. |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Apr 2020 05:36 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Apr 2020 05:36 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2228 |
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