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  • From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Sacred Ecology: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Resource Management - Fikret Berkes - Google Books
  • Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 11:22:21 -0400

https://books.google.com/books/about/Sacred_Ecology.html?id=5b8RAgZtxxIC&hl=en
Sacred Ecology: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Resource Management
Fikret Berkes
<https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Fikret+Berkes%22>
Taylor & Francis, 1999 - Nature
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- 209 pages
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<https://books.google.com/books?id=5b8RAgZtxxIC&sitesec=reviews>
Dr Berkes approaches traditional ecological knowledge as a
knowledge-practice-belief complex. This complex considers four interrelated
levels: local knowledge (species specific); resource management systems
(integrating local knowledge with practice); social institutions (rules and
codes of behavior); and world view (religion, ethics, and broadly defined
belief systems). Divided into three parts that deal with concepts,
practice, and issues, respectively, the book first discusses the emergence
of the field, its intellectual roots and global significance. Substantive
material is then included on how traditional ecological and management
systems actually work. At the same time it explores a diversity of
relationships that different groups have developed with their environment,
using extensive case studies from research conducted with the Cree Indians
of James Bay, in the eastern subarctic of North America. The final section
examines traditional knowledge as a challenge to the
positivist-reductionist paradigm in Western science, and concludes with a
discussion of the potential of traditional ecological knowledge to inject a
measure of ethics into the science of ecology and resource management.



  • [permaculture] Sacred Ecology: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Resource Management - Fikret Berkes - Google Books, Lawrence London, 08/03/2016

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