This volume focuses on the ethnobiology of southern Chile's Archipelago of Chiloé. Chiloé
presents a unique perspective on the intersection of society and biology owing to its vast
natural resources historic culture of cooperation geographic isolation and external resource
exploitation. Contributions to this volume cover knowledge bases in both marine and terrestrial
systems and how specific local knowledge types contributed to a variety of strategies
including subsistence social-ecological resilience resource conservation cultural heritage
preservation economic systems and mitigating uncertainty. This book addresses the
specificities of human-environment interaction on a resource-rich island and how historic
knowledge and practices can help configure adaptation to a changing social-ecological
landscape.
