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Dr. Fikret Berkes is Distinguished Professor and Canada Research Chair at the Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, Canada
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Fikret Berkes is Distinguished Professor and Canada Research Chair at the Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, Canada. His studies on community-based resource management have led to explorations of local and indigenous knowledge. He has authored some 250 scholarly publications and nine books, including Linking Social and Ecological Systems (Cambridge University Press, 1998) and Navigating Social-Ecological Systems (Cambridge, 2003).
Table of Contents
Preface xiii
Preface to the Second Edition xix
Context of Traditional Ecological Knowledge 1
Defining Traditional Ecological Knowledge 3
Traditional Ecological Knowledge as Science 10
Differences: Philosophical or Political? 12
Knowledge-Practice-Belief: A Framework for Analysis 16
Objectives and Overview of the Volume 19
Emergence of the Field 21
Evolution and Differentiation of the Literature 22
Growth of Ecosystem-based Knowledge 27
Cultural and Political Significance for Indigenous Peoples 31
Questions of Ownership and Intellectual Property Rights 35
Practical Significance as Common Heritage of Humankind 37
Intellectual Roots of Traditional Ecological Knowledge 49
Ethnobiology and Biosystematics: A Good Fit 50
More on Linguistics and Methodology: How to Get the Information Right 53
Exaggeration and Ethnoscience: The Eskimo Snow Hoax? 59
Human Ecology and Territoriality 61
Integration of Social Systems and Natural Systems: Importance of Worldviews 66
Traditional Knowledge Systems in Practice 71
Tropical Forests: Not Amenable to Management? 73
Semi-arid Areas: Keeping the Land Productive 78
Traditional Uses of Fire 81
Island Ecosystems-Personal Ecosystems 86
Coastal Lagoons and Wetlands 90
Conclusions 94
Cree Worldview "From the Inside" 97
Animals Control the Hunt 99
Obligations of Hunters to Show Respect 103
Importance of Continued Use for Sustainability 109
Conclusions 112
A Story of Caribou and Social Learning 117
"No One Knows the Way of the Winds and the Caribou" 119
Cree Knowledge of Caribou in Context 122
Caribou Return to the Land of the Chisasibi Cree 127
A Gathering of the Hunters 130
Lessons for the Development of a Conservation Ethic 133
Lessons for the Questions of Monitoring 135
Cree Fishing Practices as Adaptive Management 139
The Chisasibi Cree System of Fishing 141
Subarctic Ecosystems: Scientific Understanding and Cree Practice 146
Three Cree Practices: Reading Environmental Signals for Management 148
A Computer Experiment on Cree Practice and Fish Population Resilience 151
Traditional Knowledge Systems as Adaptive Management 154
Lessons from Fisher Knowledge 157
Climate Change and Indigenous Ways of Knowing 161
Indigenous Ways of Knowing and New Models of Community-based Research 163
Inuit Observations of Climate Change Project 166
A Convergence of Findings 172
Significance of Local Observations and Place-based Research 175
Indigenous Knowledge and Adaptation 176
Conclusions 179
Complex Systems, Holism, and Fuzzy Logic 181
Rules-of-thumb: Cutting Complexity Down to Size 182
Community-based Monitoring and Environmental Change 185
Complex Systems Thinking 189
Local Knowledge and Expert Systems 193
A Fuzzy Logic Analysis of Indigenous Knowledge 197
Conclusions 200
How Local Knowledge Develops: Cases from the West Indies 203
A Framework for Development of Local and Traditional Knowledge 204
Mangrove Conservation and Charcoal Makers 208
Dominican Sawyers: Developing Private Stewardship 211
Cultivating Sea Moss in St. Lucia 213
Rehabilitating Edible Sea Urchin Resources 216
Lessons from the Caribbean Cases 218
Conclusions 220
Challenges to Indigenous Knowledge 225
Limitations of Indigenous Knowledge and the Exotic Other 227
Invaders and Natives: A Historical Perspective 228
Indigenous Peoples as Conservationists? 232
"Wilderness" and a Universal Concept of Conservation 235
Adapting Traditional Systems to the Modern Context 239
Traditional Systems for Building Livelihoods in a Globalized Economy 241
Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Traditional Knowledge 246
Toward a Unity of Mind and Nature 251
Political Ecology of Indigenous Knowledge 254
Indigenous Knowledge and Empowerment 258
Indigenous Knowledge as Challenge to the Positivist-Reductionist Paradigm 264
Making Scientific Sense of Indigenous Knowledge 267
Learning from Traditional Knowledge 271
References 277
Index 305