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Methods in Research of Environmental Perception

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Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology

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In this chapter you will find a brief discussion about the complexity of understanding how people perceive and outsource their vision of the environment. The methods presented here show the diversity of resource that can be used for the construction of investigative tools that can access more wealth and people trust the information and/or social groups.

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da Silva, T.C., Cruz, M.P., de Sousa Araújo, T.A., Schwarz, M.L., Albuquerque, U.P. (2014). Methods in Research of Environmental Perception. In: Albuquerque, U., Cruz da Cunha, L., de Lucena, R., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. Springer Protocols Handbooks. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8636-7_7

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