… in tropical forest-dependent communities in which poverty, literacy… Our primary focus has
been engaging local communities; we … We first provide a summary of decisionmaking processes …

… This article reveals how local knowledge can improve planning for communities facing the
… These communities often draw on their firsthand experience—here called local knowledge…

… decision makers as the prime explanation of the decisions they make. A second approach
has looked to the social environment of the decision maker … the types of decisions made. The …

… In the end, have strategies used to bring traditional knowledge into environmental decision
making been effective? Strategies used to foster traditional knowledge at the community level …

… We then combine stakeholder knowledge into a community knowledge system which …
Finally, we compare the community knowledge system to individual stakeholder knowledge …

… and limitations of community knowledge in science policy. While neither romanticizing
nor essentializing community knowledge, the paper suggests that the knowledge used to …

… knowledge management implementation and knowledge management tools used in
healthcare for informed decision making. … The finding of this review showed that communities of …

… According to their revised view of scientific knowledge, where closure of a … community.
These pressures and constraints include not only the accepted knowledge of the community (the …

… Awareness and understanding of these culturally situated practices are crucial in developing
sensitivity to the diverse socio-political communities we expect to engage with scientific …

… in the context of planning and decision making. In this context … in decision making processes
affecting their communities. … by communities for increasing knowledge of water sources. …