The Six Faces of Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Challenges and Opportunities for Canadian Co-Management Arrangements

By Nicolas Houde. 2007

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The First Nations of Canada have been active over the past three decades in negotiating natural resources co-management arrangements that would give them greater involvement in decision- making processes that are closer to their values and worldviews. These values and worldviews are part of the traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) that First Nations possess about the land; to reach agreements to the satisfaction of First Nations, appropriate ways to involve TEK in decision-making processes must be designed. Through a review of the literature on TEK, I identified six "faces" of TEK, i.e., factual observations, management systems, past and current land uses, ethics and values, culture and identity, and cosmology, as well as the particular challenges and opportunities that each face poses to the co-management of natural resources.

Subfields: Anthropology, General Health Professions, Health

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Citations in the corpus

• The importance of deliberation in valuing ecosystem services in developing countries - evidence from the Solomon Islands (2011, background): “Ecological knowledge, environmental management, values, culture and identity are intimately intertwined in many indigenous societies (Houde, 2007) and this may especially be the case in places such as the Solomon Islands, where subsistence dominates livelihoods.”
• On the role of traditional ecological knowledge as a collaborative concept: a philosophical study (2013, background): “The concept of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) comes up frequently in certain segments of environmental and natural resources science and policy literatures (Houde 2007).”
• Transcendental values and the valuation and management of ecosystem services (2016, background): “For instance, Houde (2007) points out that TVs, cultural identity and cosmology interact with factual observations, management systems and past and current land uses.”
• Environmental cognitions, land change, and social–ecological feedbacks: an overview (2013, background): “Thus, TEK is related with sense of place and connectedness to nature (Houde 2007 ; Berkes 2008 ).”
• Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Ecological Science: a Question of Scale (2009, background): “…or TEK encompasses (1) factual knowledge about ecological components and processes, (2) knowledge put into practices of environmental use, and (3) the cultural values, ethics, and philosophies that define human relationships within the natural world (Stevenson 1996, Usher 2000, Houde 2007).”