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Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology pp 99–109Cite as

Methods in Research of Environmental Perception

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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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  • Ethnobiology
  • Environmental representation
  • Data collection

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  1. Laboratory of Applied and Theoretical Ethnobiology, Department of Biology, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

    Taline Cristina da Silva, Margarita Paloma Cruz, Thiago Antônio de Sousa Araújo & Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

  2. Federal University of Campina Grande, Cajazeiras, Brazil

    Maria Luiza Schwarz

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  1. Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

    Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

  2. Departmento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

    Luiz Vital Fernandes Cruz da Cunha

  3. Departamento de Fitotecnia e Ciências Ambientais, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Areia, Paraíba, Brazil

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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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