caa a22 4500 445806826 CHVBK 20180317145159.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10745-011-9424-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10745-011-9424-9 Spoon Jeremy Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA aut The Heterogeneity of Khumbu Sherpa Ecological Knowledge and Understanding in Sagarmatha (Mount Everest) National Park and Buffer Zone, Nepal [Elektronische Daten] [Jeremy Spoon] The ecological knowledge and understanding of indigenous peoples and long-term settlers is heterogeneous and continually in flux as they adapt to ecological, political and economic changes. This research focuses on Khumbu Sherpa ecological knowledge and its relation to environmental decision-making. The Sherpa, Tibetan Buddhists who practice agro-pastoralism, provide tourism services to visitors of Sagarmatha (Mount Everest) National Park and Buffer Zone. Utilizing mixed quantitative and qualitative methods, I selected a stratified random sample of 100 individuals to assess spiritual values, and species and landscape knowledge. The results generally showed that individuals who lived on the tourist route and younger generations had less knowledge of these domains. These findings suggest that some Sherpa ecological knowledge and understanding had shifted from spiritual and agro-pastoralist socioeconomic values to a more tourism-centered economic logic. Future environmental decisions may be influenced by these changes. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011 Ecological knowledge and understanding nationallicence Heterogeneity nationallicence Tourism nationallicence Sherpa nationallicence Himalayas nationallicence Human Ecology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 39/5(2011-10-01), 657-672 0300-7839 39:5<657 2011 39 10745 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-011-9424-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-011-9424-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Spoon Jeremy Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Human Ecology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 39/5(2011-10-01), 657-672 0300-7839 39:5<657 2011 39 10745 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer