Resilience, Reciprocity and Ecological Economics

Trosper, Ronald L.

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“…Resilience, diversity, and northwest coast sustainability Ethnographic sources and traditional knowledge suggest that indigenous peoples of the northwest coast of British Columbia had territorial governance systems and complex protocols that delineated access rights to land and seascapes as a means to conserve and manage most resources (Olson 1955, Hilton 1990, Harkin 1997, Jones 2002, Turner et al 2005, Trosper 2009, Powell 2012. Proprietorship of these territories was designated through a system of family-based clans, each with their own designated access areas containing seasonal fishing and hunting sites, cultivated gardens, and berry picking and tending sites, which in turn produced food, trade goods, medicines, and other important resources (Turner et al 2005, Turner 2014).…”

Section: Larval Clam Delivery and Recruitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Specifically, proprietorship over territories was contingent on maintaining the productivity of a territory's resources for future generations (Turner and Jones 2000, Trosper 2009, Turner 2014. Clam gardens would have been one means by which to accomplish this.…”

Section: Larval Clam Delivery and Recruitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It afforded social insurance against misfortune, such that neighbouring clans could be asked for support when resources were low or management failed, knowing that such support would be reciprocated if needed in the future. Furthermore, the sharing and exchange of a territory's net returns reduces competition among resource users and incentive to overharvest, thereby providing a solution to the tragedy of the commons (Trosper 2009). The enforcement of reciprocity was made legal via the potlatch system, a public governance system among coastal First Nations whose ubiquity implies its benefits (Barnett 1938, Suttles 1960, Drucker 1965.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Territorial access rights and rules governing the behavior of chiefs created a system of governance over common pool fisheries resources that would have conferred resilience to societies on the northwest coast for millennia (Trosper 2009). Specifically, proprietorship over territories was contingent on maintaining the productivity of a territory's resources for future generations (Turner and Jones 2000, Trosper 2009, Turner 2014.…”

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Ancient clam gardens, traditional management portfolios, and the resilience of coupled human-ocean systems

Jackley¹,

Gardner²,

Djunaedi³

et al. 2016

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ABSTRACT. Indigenous communities have actively managed their environments for millennia using a diversity of resource use and conservation strategies. Clam gardens, ancient rock-walled intertidal beach terraces, represent one example of an early mariculture technology that may have been used to improve food security and confer resilience to coupled human-ocean systems. We surveyed a coastal landscape for evidence of past resource use and management to gain insight into ancient resource stewardship practices on the central coast of British Columbia, Canada. We found that clam gardens are embedded within a diverse portfolio of resource use and management strategies and were likely one component of a larger, complex resource management system. We compared clam diversity, density, recruitment, and biomass in three clam gardens and three unmodified nonwalled beaches. Evidence suggests that butter clams (Saxidomus gigantea) had 1.96 times the biomass and 2.44 times the density in clam gardens relative to unmodified beaches. This was due to a reduction in beach slope and thus an increase in the optimal tidal range where clams grow and survive best. The most pronounced differences in butter clam density between nonwalled beaches and clam gardens were found at high tidal elevations at the top of the beach. Finally, clam recruits (0.5-2 mm in length) tended to be greater in clam gardens compared to nonwalled beaches and may be attributed to the addition of shell hash by ancient people, which remains on the landscape today. As part of a broader social-ecological system, clam garden sites were among several modifications made by humans that collectively may have conferred resilience to past communities by providing reliable and diverse access to food resources.

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Section: Larval Clam Delivery and Recruitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Larval Clam Delivery and Recruitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Larval Clam Delivery and Recruitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Larval Clam Delivery and Recruitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Ancient clam gardens, traditional management portfolios, and the resilience of coupled human-ocean systems

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Djunaedi³

et al. 2016

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“…Despite this realization, ecological research often lacks a consideration of the potential costs and benefits of the research process and its outcomes on local residents. However, multidisciplinary approaches to ecological research that incorporate social dimensions provide increasingly effective approaches by which to consider the impacts of research for local people (Berkes 2004, Deur and Turner 2005, Drew 2005, Trosper 2009, Housty et al 2014). …”

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Toward increased engagement between academic and indigenous community partners in ecological research

Adams¹,

Carpenter²,

Housty³

et al. 2014

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ABSTRACT. Ecological research, especially work related to conservation and resource management, increasingly involves social dimensions. Concurrently, social systems, composed of human communities that have direct cultural connections to local ecology and place, may draw upon environmental research as a component of knowledge. Such research can corroborate local and traditional ecological knowledge and empower its application. Indigenous communities and their interactions with and management of resources in their traditional territories can provide a model of such social-ecological systems. As decision-making agency is shifted increasingly to indigenous governments in Canada, abundant opportunities exist for applied ecological research at the community level. Despite this opportunity, however, current approaches by scholars to community engaged ecological research often lack a coherent framework that fosters a respectful relationship between research teams and communities. Crafted with input from applied scholars and leaders within indigenous communities in coastal British Columbia, we present here reflections on our process of academic-community engagement in three indigenous territories in coastal British Columbia, Canada. Recognizing that contexts differ among communities, we emerge with a generalizable framework to guide future efforts. Such an approach can yield effective research outcomes and emergent, reciprocal benefits such as trust, respect, and capacity among all, which help to maintain enduring relationships. Facing the present challenge of community engagement head-on by collaborative approaches can lead to effective knowledge production toward conservation, resource management, and scholarship.

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Aboriginal freshwater fisheries as resilient social–ecological systems

Lam

2015

Freshwater Fisheries Ecology

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Resilience, Reciprocity and Ecological Economics

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Ancient clam gardens, traditional management portfolios, and the resilience of coupled human-ocean systems

Ancient clam gardens, traditional management portfolios, and the resilience of coupled human-ocean systems

Toward increased engagement between academic and indigenous community partners in ecological research

Aboriginal freshwater fisheries as resilient social–ecological systems

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