FISH 506F / ANTH 461

Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Fisheries Management – Current Topics in Fisheries

FISH 506F / ANTH 461 Credits: 3

This course will focus on the role of traditional & local ecological knowledge in environmental assessment processes and in the development of resource management plans. Natural resource management approaches have long been critiqued for highlighting bio-economic features over cultural and social aspects of the human/environmental interface. Practitioners have come a long way over the past several decades and are now open to incorporating local systems of knowledge into management plans. The difficulty is how to do this.

Charles Menzies
Not offered in 2023/24