Biocultural diversity and indigenous ways of knowing : human ecology in the Arctic / / Karim-Aly S. Kassam.

• Superior document: Northern lights series, 12
• Author: Arctic Institute of North America.; Kassam, Karim-Aly S., 1964-
• TeilnehmendeR: Arctic Institute of North America.; Canadian Electronic Library (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Northern lights series ; 12.; Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.
• Physical Description: 1 electronic text (xiii, 270 p.) :; ill. (some col.), maps, digital file.
• Notes: Co-published by Arctic Institute of North America.; Issued as part of the Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.

"At the dawn of the third millennium, dramatic challenges face human civilization everywhere. Relations between human beings and their environment are in peril, with mounting threats to both biological diversity of life on earth and cultural diversity of human communities. The peoples of the Ci...

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Relations between culture and nature: a critical consideration
• Human ecology reconceptualized: a lens for relations between biological and cultural diversity
• "Man and his friends"
• An illustrative case of human ecology in Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada
• "The weather is going under"
• Human ecology, phronesis, and climate change in Wainwright, Alaska, USA
• Mapping human ecology: a transformative act
• Implications of a human ecological outlook.