Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Natural Resource Management edited by Charles R. Menzies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Menzies, Charles R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conservation of natural resources--North America.

Conservation of natural resources.

Traditional ecological knowledge--North America.

Traditional ecological knowledge.

Ethnoecology--North America.

Ethnoecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of essays on the ways Native communities have interacted with the environment. This work examines how traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) is taught and practised among Native communities. It focuses on the complex relationship between indigenous ecological practices and other ways of interacting with the environment.

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; I. Indigenous Practices and Natural Resources; 1. Tidal Pulse Fishing; 2. As It Was in the Past; 3. The Forest and the Seaweed; 4. Ecological Knowledge, Subsistence, and Livelihood Practices; II. Local Knowledge and Contemporary Resource Managements; 5. Historicizing Indigenous Knowledge; 6. The Case of the Missing Sheep; 7. Local Knowledge, Multiple Livelihoods, and the Use of Natural and Social Resources in North Carolina; 8. Integrating Fishers' Knowledge into Fisheries Science and Management

III. Learning from Local Ecological Knowledge9. Honoring Aboriginal Science Knolwedge and Wisdom in an Environmental Education Graduate Program; 10. Traditional Wisdom as Practiced and Transmitted in Northwestern British Columbia, Canada; Afterword; References; List of Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-259) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-280-55074-0

9786610550746

0-8032-0735-2

OCLC:

320465053