Looking at the landscape through local lenses: Integrating community values and variation in indicators of sustainability

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2001
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Watkinsville, Ga.: SANREM CRSP
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This brief illustrates an innovative tool that enables researchers to elicit culturally relevant indicators, many of which are non-monetary and non-material. But it also shows how qualitative parameters can be quantified for evaluative and comparative purposes. The analysis of quantified data makes it possible to unveil and reflect underlying patterns of intracultural diversity in environmental assessments.

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Social impacts, Research planning, Ethnicity/race, Environmental impacts, Quality of life, Sustainability, Local knowledge, Survey research methods, Diversity, Gender, Environmental monitoring, Cultural relevance, Age, Ethnoecology, The Philippines, Manupali watershed, Northern mindanao, Thematic apperception test (tat), Intra-cultural variation, Watershed
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SANREM CRSP Research Brief 2001 no. 6