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Acknowledgments

Thanks to Pablo Domínguez and two anonymous referees for their valuable comments and criticism to a draft of this manuscript. We thank Isabelle Angelovski, Joan Martínez Alier, and our colleagues of the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) for their comments and inputs provided in a seminar presentation of a draft of this paper. Reyes-Garcia also thanks Resilient Dry land Systems, ICRISAT-Patancheru for providing her with office facilities, and financial funding of an ERC Starting Grant (FP7-261971-LEK).

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    Erik Gómez-Baggethun

  2. Social-Ecological Systems Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Erik Gómez-Baggethun

  3. ICREA and Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Victoria Reyes-García

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Gómez-Baggethun, E., Reyes-García, V. Reinterpreting Change in Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Hum Ecol 41, 643–647 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-013-9577-9

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