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Local Environmental Knowledge

Local Environmental Knowledge is a context-specific body of knowledge consisting of understandings, practices, and beliefs about local ecosystems and environmental processes that is generated, maintained, and transmitted within a particular community through long-term, everyday interaction with its environment rather than through formal scientific inquiry.

679

Publications

39.7K

Citations

1.9K

Authors

800

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

232

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Children

Publications

679

Environmental knowledge and conservation behavior: exploring prevalence and structure in a representative sample

Jacqueline Frick, Florian G. Kaiser, Mark Wilson · Personality and Individual Differences · 2004 · 933 citations

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Local and farmers' knowledge matters! How integrating informal and formal knowledge enhances sustainable and resilient agriculture

Sandra Šūmane, Ilona Kunda, Karlheinz Knickel et al. · Journal of Rural Studies · 2017 · 709 citations

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Who Knows? On the Importance of Identifying “Experts” When Researching Local Ecological Knowledge

Anthony Davis, John Wagner · Human Ecology · 2003 · 694 citations

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Local Ecological Knowledge and Institutional Dynamics for Ecosystem Management: A Study of Lake Racken Watershed, Sweden

Per Olsson, Carl Folke · Ecosystems · 2001 · 629 citations

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Use of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Marine Conservation

Joshua Drew · Conservation Biology · 2005 · 513 citations · Full text

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Authors

1.9K

  1. VR
    Victoria Reyes‐García

    Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

    22 publications · 2.6K citations

    20

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  2. IR
    Isabel Ruíz-Mallén

    Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain

    7 publications · 820 citations

    7

    h-index

  3. FB
    Fikret Berkes

    University of Manitoba, Canada

    6 publications · 1.1K citations

    6

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  4. EG
    Erik Gómez‐Baggethun

    Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Norway

    5 publications · 1.2K citations

    5

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  5. NH
    Natália Hanazaki

    Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil

    5 publications · 94 citations

    5

    h-index

1–5 of 1.9K

Institutions

800

  1. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

    Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

    22 h-index

    76 publications

    9.3K citations

  2. Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats

    Barcelona, Spain

    18 h-index

    19 publications

    2.3K citations

  3. University of Helsinki

    Helsinki, Finland

    12 h-index

    19 publications

    1.9K citations

  4. Colorado State University

    Fort Collins, United States

    12 h-index

    25 publications

    1.6K citations

  5. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

    Mexico City, Mexico

    10 h-index

    28 publications

    1.2K citations

  6. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    7 h-index

    11 publications

    592 citations

  7. University of Manitoba

    Winnipeg, Canada

    7 h-index

    14 publications

    1.8K citations

  8. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

    Madrid, Spain

    7 h-index

    20 publications

    3.1K citations

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Venues

  1. Ecology and Society

    29 publications · 2.8K citations

    25

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  2. Environmental Education Research

    15 publications · 545 citations

    14

    h-index

  3. Human Ecology

    14 publications · 819 citations

    14

    h-index

  4. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

    15 publications · 1.3K citations

    13

    h-index

  5. Environmental Science & Policy

    15 publications · 557 citations

    13

    h-index

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