Traditional ecological knowledge

2020
In this module, students will explore Western Science and Traditional Ecological Knowledge and review a case study of how the TEK of the Inuit people provided a way of knowing and understanding the biology of the bowhead whale in the Alaskan arctic.
Monfils, Anna, Linton, Debra
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Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Conservation

2020
Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) is based on deep understanding of systems from observations made over hundreds to thousands of years. This resource connects TEK to modern conservation through media and primary literature interpretation.
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Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Border Theory and Justice

2010
Recent times have seen a growing preoccupation with diversity as a consequence of the newly intercivilisational encounters of our rapidly globalising world. Globalisation has meant that at the local level, the world’s peoples rub more closely together not only ensuring that diversity, plurality and hybridity have become the leitmotifs of the global age,
Carter, Lyn, Walker, Nicolas
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Traditional ecological knowledge and indigenous tourism

2007
The dominance of Western knowledge in general, and modern science in particular, has come under increasing scrutiny and pressure during the last two decades. There is growing recognition that Western ways of knowing are socially constructed and influenced (Latour, 1999) and thus claims of greater objectivity and empiricism fail to support Western ...
Caroline F. Butler, Charles R. Menzies
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14. life underwater
15. life on land
indigenous knowledge

local ecological knowledge
13. climate action
traditional ecological knowledge tek

ethnobotany
sustainable development
biology general