Sacred ecology
Record details
- ISBN: 9780415517317 (hardback)
- ISBN: 0415517311 (hardback)
- ISBN: 9780415517324 (paperback)
- ISBN: 041551732X (paperback)
- ISBN: 9780203123843 (e-book)
- ISBN: 0203123840 (e-book)
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Physical Description:
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xxiv, 363 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Edition: 3rd ed.
- Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2012.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-320) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Context of traditional ecological knowledge: Defining traditional ecological knowledge; Traditional ecological knowledge as science; Differences: Philosophical or political?; Knowledge-practice-belief: A framework for analysis; Objectives and overview of the volume -- Emergence of the field: Evolution and differentiation of the literature; Growth of ecosystem-based knowledge; Cultural and political significance for indigenous peoples; Questions of ownership and intellectual property rights; Practical significance as common heritage of humankind -- Intellectual roots of traditional ecological knowledge: Ethnobiology and biosystematics: A good fit; More on linguistics and methodology: How to get the information right; Exaggeration and ethnoscience: The eskimo snow hoax?; Human ecology and territoriality; Integration of social systems and natural systems: Importance of worldviews -- Traditional knowledge systems in practice: Tropical forests: Not amendable to management?; Semi-arid areas: Keeping the land productive; Traditional uses of fire; Island ecosystems - personal ecosystems; Coastal lagoons and wetlands -- Cree worldview "from the inside": Animals control the hunt; Obligations of hunters to show respect; Importance of continued use for sustainability -- A story of caribou and social learning: "No one knows the way of the winds and the caribou"; Cree knowledge of caribou in context; Caribou return to the land of the chisasibi cree; A gathering of the hunters; Lessons for the development of a conservation ethic; Lessons for management policy and monitoring -- Cree fishing practices as adaptive management: The chisasibi cree system of fishing; Subarctic ecosystem: Scientific understanding and cree practice; Three cree practices: Reading environmental signals for management; A computer experiment on cree practice and fish population resilience; Traditional knowledge systems as adaptive management; Lessons from fisher knowledge -- Climate change and indigenous ways of knowing: Indigenous ways of knowing and new models of community-based research; Inuit observations of climate change project; A convergence of findings; Significance of local observations and place-based research; Indigenous knowledge and adaptation -- Complex systems, holism, and fuzzy logic: Rules-of-thumb: Cutting complexity down to size; Community-based monitoring and environmental change; Complex systems thinking; Local knowledge and expert systems; A fuzzy logic analysis of indigenous knowledge -- How local knowledge develops: Cases from the west indies: A framework for development of local and traditional knowledge; Mangrove conservation and charcoal makers; Dominican sawyers: Developing private stewardship; Cultivating sea moss in st. lucia; Rehabilitating edible sea urchin resources; Lessons from the caribbean cases; Knowledge development and institutions -- Challenges for indigenous knowledge: Limitations of indigenous knowledge and the exotic other; Invaders and natives: A historical perspectives; Indigenous peoples as conservationists?; "Wilderness" and a universal concept of conservation; Adapting traditional systems to the modern context; Traditional systems for building livelihoods in a globalized economy; Toward an evolutionary theory of traditional knowledge -- Toward a unity of mind and nature: Political ecology of indigenous knowledge; Indigenous knowledge and empowerment; Indigenous knowledge as challenge to the positivist - reductionist paradigm; Making scientific sense of indigenous knowledge; Learning from traditional knowledge. |
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Subject: | Environmental sciences -- Philosophy Traditional ecological knowledge Indigenous peoples Human ecology SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General |
Topic Heading: | First Nation. Aboriginal. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Lansdowne Library | GE 40 B45 2012 (Text) | 26040003189590 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |