Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Also available in print version
Series Statement:
Northern lights series 12
Series Statement:
Northern lights series
Parallel Title:
Print version Biocultural diversity and indigenous ways of knowing
DDC:
304.20911/3
Keywords:
Human ecology
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Indigenous peoples
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Subsistence economy Case studies
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Biodiversity conservation
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Cultural pluralism
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Traditional ecological knowledge
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Arktis
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Indigenes Volk
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Humanökologie
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-249) and index
Abstract:
"At the dawn of the third millennium, dramatic challenges face human civilization everywhere. Relations between human beings and their environment are in peril, with mounting threats to both biological diversity of life on earth and cultural diversity of human communities. The peoples of the Circumpolar Arctic are at the forefront of these challenges and lead the way in seeking meaningful responses." "In Biocultural Diversity and Indigenous Ways of Knowing, author Karim-Aly Kassam positions the Arctic and sub-Arctic as a homeland rather than simply a frontier for resource exploitation. Kassam aims to empirically and theoretically illustrate the synthesis between the cultural and biological, using human ecology as a conceptual and analytical lens. Drawing on research carried out in partnership with indigenous northern communities, three case studies illustrate that subsistence hunting and gathering are not relics of an earlier era, but rather remain essential to both cultural diversity and to human survival." "This book deals with contemporary issues such as climate change, indigenous knowledge, and the impact of natural resource extraction. It is a narrative of community-based research, in the service of the communities for the benefit of the communities. It provides resource-based industry, policy makers, and students with an alternative way of engaging indigenous communities and transforming our perspective on conservation of ecological and cultural diversity."--BOOK JACKET
Description / Table of Contents:
Relations between culture and nature: a critical considerationHuman ecology reconceptualized: a lens for relations between biological and cultural diversity"Man and his friends"an illustrative case of human ecology in Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada"The weather is going under"human ecology, phronesis, and climate change in Wainwright, Alaska, USAMapping human ecology: a transformative actImplications of a human ecological outlook.
Note:
Co-published by Arctic Institute of North America
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Accompanied by col. map in envelope
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Also available in print version.
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