TY - BOOK
T1 - Traditional ecological knowledge: A collection of essays
T2 - IUCN conservation library
Y1 - 1989
ED - R. E. (Robert Earle) Johannes
KW - ecology
KW - natural conservation
AB -
IUCN is pleased to publish this collection of articles which originate from the working group on Traditional Ecological Knowledge of our Commission on Ecology. This book does not presume to be an authoritative review of the state of knowledge in the field. It is, rather, a collection of free essays which offer fascinating glimpses of the deep understanding and practice of "ecology" displayed by traditional societies on different continents. (editor)
Contains the following essays:
- A parable of fire: Hunter-gatherers in Canada and Australia (Henry T. Lewis)
- !Kung knowledge of animal behavior (Nicholas Blurton Jones and Melvin J. Konner)
- Reasons for ethnobotanical conservation (Richard Evans Schultes)
- Fishing and traditional knowledge (Robert E. Johannes)
- Nature intensive agriculture: The food production system of Yap Islands (Marjorie V.C. Falanruw)
- Doing what comes naturally: Ecological inventiveness in African rice farming (Paul Richards)
- Traditional environmental knowledge and resource management in New Caledonia (Arthur Lyon Dahl)
- Conclusion: Issues in the application of traditional knowledge to environmental science (Graham B. K. Baines)
JF - IUCN conservation library
PB - IUCN
CY - Gland [Switzerland]; Cambridge
SN - 2-88032-998-1
UR - http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/729639587
N1 - November 1989
Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-77)
JO - Traditional ecological knowledge
ER -
TY - JOUR
T1 - Traditional marine conservation methods in Oceania and their demise
JF - Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics
Y1 - 1978
A1 - R. E. Johannes
KW - aquaculture
KW - aquatic resources
KW - fish
KW - Melanesia
AB - This paper is an account of the rise and decline of a millenia-old system of controlled exploitation of marine resources that incorporates a wisdom Westerners are only now beginning to appreciate after having brought about its widespread decay. (author)
VL - 9
UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/2096753
IS - 1
U1 - Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics
U5 - 16 pp.
ER -