Traditional Ecological Knowledge - Learning From Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability

This book examines the importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and how it can provide models for a time-tested form of sustainability needed in the world today. The essays, written by a team of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, explore TEK through compelling cases of environmental sustainability from multiple tribal and geographic locations in North America and beyond. Addressing the philosophical issues concerning indigenous and ecological knowledge production and maintenance, they focus on how environmental values and ethics are applied to the uses of land.Grounded in an understanding of the profound relationship between biological and cultural diversity, this book defines, interrogates, and problematizes, the many definitions of traditional ecological knowledge and sustainability. It includes a holistic and broad disciplinary approach to sustainability, including language, art, and ceremony, as critical ways to maintain healthy human-environment relations.

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• Authors: Melissa K. Nelson, Melissa K. (San Francisco State University Nelson
• Assisted by: Melissa K. Nelson (Editor), Daniel Shilling (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781108450447
• ISBN: 978-1-108-45044-7
• No. of pages: 290
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Print on Demand; New Directions in Sustainability and Society
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; History, History: specific events & topics, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, HISTORY / Historical Geography, 21st Century, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, The environment, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, c 1500 onwards to present day, Science / Environmental Science, History: specific events and topics, Environmentalist, Conservationist & Green Organizations, Environmentalist, conservationist and Green organizations, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Historical Geography