Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Wisdom of Aboriginal Peoples in British Columbia

Turner, Nancy J.; Ignace, Marianne; Ignace, Ronald

doi:10.1890/1051-0761(2000)010[1275:tekawo]2.0.co;2

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“…Nevertheless, debate surrounds how both knowledge types can be used together (Berkes 1999, Turner et al 2000.…”

Section: Restoration Of Oil Spill Impacted Populationsmentioning

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“…Like many other indigenous cultures of North America (e.g., see Salmon 2000, Turner et al 2000, the Cree consider humans as part of the natural world. Humans are part of a community of beings, related to all fish and wildlife, and sharing the same Creator (Berkes 1999).…”

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“…Recent studies and essays have noted that extracting available TEK in its entirety may be difficult due to cultural, communication, or language issues (Ferguson and Messier 1997, Wenzel 1999, Huntington 2000, Turner et al 2000, Usher 2000, Drew 2005. Throughout this study, we consulted community officials to identify key informants for the interviews and fieldwork (see Ferguson and Messier 1997, Huntington 1998, Davis and Wagner 2003.…”

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Integrating Traditional and Evolutionary Knowledge in Biodiversity Conservation: a Population Level Case Study

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ABSTRACT. Despite their dual importance in the assessment of endangered/threatened species, there have been few attempts to integrate traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and evolutionary biology knowledge (EBK) at the population level. We contrasted long-term aboriginal TEK with previously obtained EBK in the context of seasonal migratory habits and population biology of a salmonid fish, brook charr, (Salvelinus fontinalis) inhabiting a large, remote postglacial lake. Compilation of TEK spanning four decades involved analytical workshops, semidirective interviews, and collaborative fieldwork with local aboriginal informants and fishing guides. We found that TEK complemented EBK of brook charr by providing concordant and additional information about (1) population viability; (2) breeding areas and migration patterns of divergent populations; and (3) the behavioral ecology of populations within feeding areas; all of which may ultimately affect the maintenance of population diversity. Aboriginal concerns related to human pressures on this species, not revealed by EBK, also help to focus future conservation initiatives for divergent populations and to encourage restoration of traditional fishing practices. However, relative to EBK, the relevance of TEK to salmonid biodiversity conservation was evident mainly at a smaller spatial scale, for example, that of individual rivers occupied by populations or certain lake sectors. Nevertheless, EBK was only collected over a 4-yr period, so TEK provided an essential long-term temporal window to evaluate population differences and persistence. We concluded that, despite different conceptual underpinnings, spatially and temporally varying TEK and EBK both contribute to the knowledge base required to achieve sustainability and effective biodiversity conservation planning for a given species. Such integration may be particularly relevant in many isolated regions, where intraspecific diversity can go unrecognized due to sparse scientific knowledge or undocumented TEK, and where governmental agencies and local communities increasingly seek to find common ground on which to address biodiversity issues.

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“…Nevertheless, debate surrounds how both knowledge types can be used together (Berkes 1999, Turner et al 2000.…”

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“…Nygren (1999: 271) describes this as knowledge reconfiguration "within the ongoing struggles over resources and representations" that are also inevitably affected by peoples' competitive roles, and their gender, class, age, religion and political standing. Colonial oppression has eroded many significant elements and transfer mechanisms of local ecological knowledge systems, and thus contributed to the assimilation of external knowledge, where significant parts of traditional culture and knowledge are abandoned (Turner et al 2000). In East Africa, weakened knowledge systems have also been subject to further structural and epistemological oppression in the post-colonial period, as we will demonstrate in this article.…”

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Political ecology of asymmetric ecological knowledges: diverging views on the eucalyptus-water nexus in the Taita Hills, Kenya

Hohenthal

Räsänen

Minoia

2018

Journal of Political Ecology

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Environmental resource management policies worldwide have long insisted on the need to involve local communities and their diverse ecological knowledges in management planning and decision-making. In SubSaharan post-colonial countries, however, formal resource management is still largely dominated by bureaucratic governance regimes that date back to colonial power structures and that rely mainly on professional or formal knowledge. In this study, we use a political ecology approach to analyze disputes over eucalyptus plantations in the Taita Hills, Kenya. The approach recognizes the plurality of socially constructed and powerladen perceptions of environmental resources. We found that local people regard eucalyptus plantations not only as a threat to local water resources but they also highlight historical injustices and the loss of control over, and cultural relationships to their land. Bureaucratic resource management institutions, however, support the planting of eucalyptus to meet national demands for commercial forestry. Management officials also plead a lack of "valid" evidence for the negative impacts of eucalyptus on local water resources, diverting attention away from the formal environmental governance system which has unequal sharing of benefits, unclear policies, and internal incoherence. Recognition of historically rooted asymmetries of knowledge and power provides a step towards social transformation, ending a long-standing reproduction of subalternity, and promoting environmental justice and pluralism in decision-making. Keywords: bureaucratic knowledge; environmental justice; eucalyptus; Kenya; knowledge asymmetries; local ecological knowledge; political ecology; resource management RésuméLes politiques de gestion des ressources environnementales dans le monde insistent depuis longtemps sur la nécessité d'impliquer les communautés locales et leurs diverses connaissances écologiques dans la planification, l'aménagement et la prise de décisions. Dans les pays post-coloniaux subsahariens, cependant, la gestion formelle des ressources est encore largement dominée par des régimes de gouvernance bureaucratique qui remontent aux structures de pouvoir coloniales et qui reposent principalement sur des connaissances professionnelles ou formelles. Dans cette étude, on propose une approche d'écologie politique pour l'analyse des disputes sur les plantations d'eucalyptus dans les collines de Taita au Kenya. L'approche reconnaît la pluralité des perceptions sur les ressources environnementales en tant que socialement construites et chargées des relations de pouvoir. On a constaté que pas seulement les populations locales considèrent les plantations 1 Johanna Hohenthal, PhD student, Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Finland. Email: johanna.hohenthal "at" helsinki.fi. Marinka Räsänen, MSc. Email: marinka.rasa "at" gmail.com. Dr. Paola Minoia, Adjunct Professor, Development Studies, Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland. Email: paola.mi...

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“…A dynamic nature of human capital provides many advantages to the community, especially for their economic interest. For example, the indigenous communities in Colombia shows that there is a connection between the human capital and economic activity [16]. The connectivity is observed through the increasing income obtained when they took advantage of their human capital.…”

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The Effect of the Ownership and Usage of New HumanCapital Change on the Economic Empowerment AmongstOrang Kuala in Malaysia

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RofRedzuan²,

Samah³

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Abstract-Orang Kuala as the sub tribe of Orang Asli (indigenous people in Malaysia) cannot avoid the changes in which occurs around them. For the indigenous people, the change is always perceived as a threat which endangering their traditional human capital. It is rarely that the change is observed from a positive view in which it give them a chance to change their life and compete with the other community. In case of Orang Kuala, they are now participating in business-base economic activities and left the former traditional economic activities as fishermen. Their participation in business activities will alter their traditional human capital and push them to use a new human capital. The positive side of their involvement is that their economic activities will be empowered. This occurs due to the assumption that their engagement in business activities can help them to achieve economic empowerment. To scrutinize the truth, this article has two objectives; to identify the ownership and use of new human capital and to identify whether the new human capital is a factor to economic empowerment. This paper used a quantitative approach which has been conducted on 267 Orang Kuala in Johor, Malaysia. The study showed, the ownership and the use of new human capital are greater amongst businessmen as compared to fishermen. The study also showed that the ownership of new human capital is the factor of economic empowerment without differential amongst the difference of Orang Kuala's occupations.

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Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Wisdom of Aboriginal Peoples in British Columbia

Cited by 416 publications

References 4 publications

Integrating Traditional and Evolutionary Knowledge in Biodiversity Conservation: a Population Level Case Study

Integrating Traditional and Evolutionary Knowledge in Biodiversity Conservation: a Population Level Case Study

Political ecology of asymmetric ecological knowledges: diverging views on the eucalyptus-water nexus in the Taita Hills, Kenya

The Effect of the Ownership and Usage of New HumanCapital Change on the Economic Empowerment AmongstOrang Kuala in Malaysia

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