scholarly journals Systematic conservation planning in Tsay Keh Dene Territory: incorporating climate change and interweaving traditional ecological knowledge

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Christopher Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
Traditional Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Conservation Planning ◽  
Geospatial Analysis ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Western Science ◽  
Conservation Value ◽  
Systematic Conservation Planning ◽  
North Central

Systematic Conservation Planning (SCP) is the practice of comprehensively assessing a landscape for its conservation value via geospatial analysis. This research project applied SCP principles and tools to Tsay Keh Dene Nation Territory in north-central British Columbia, Canada. Working with the Tsay Keh Dene community, we articulated conservation goals and determined important features on the landscape that helped attain those goals. This effort also examined climate change and connectivity impacts on conservation, comparing which lands are most worth conserving today versus 30 and 60 years from now. Finally, this work explored the interweaving of Traditional Ecological Knowledge with the Western science-based SCP framework to ensure a more holistic and inclusive outcome. Our findings both validated ongoing conservation efforts in the Territory and identified additional high-value areas for future consideration. This research can also serve as a guide for other accessible TEK-focused or community-led SCP efforts.

Climate change-conscious systematic conservation planning: A case study in the Peace River Break, British Columbia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Jerrica Mann
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
Habitat Fragmentation ◽  
Conservation Planning ◽  
Anthropogenic Disturbance ◽  
Synergistic Effects ◽  
Systematic Conservation Planning ◽  
Peace River

The synergistic effects of anthropogenic disturbance, habitat fragmentation and climate change pose a significant threat to biodiversity that is challenging to predict. Anthropogenically driven climate change has already begun to impact critical climate regions and is now recognized to be one of the most serious threats to biodiversity and the conservation thereof. Despite this, few conservation planning initiatives have sought to sharpen the focus of the systematic conservation planning (SCP) framework to explicitly include climate change. To promote the evolution of the SCP framework into a climate change-conscious (CCC) approach to conservation planning, I developed and applied a methodology for incorporating climatechange resiliency into the SCP framework. This CCC-SCP methodology can be used to guide future conservation planning initiatives, helping conservation planners recognize and respond to opportunities for action, conserve our planet’s biodiversity and mitigate the effects of climate change.

Health and natural landscapes: concepts and applications

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Traditional Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Natural Landscapes ◽  
The Many ◽  
Over Time

Abstract This book contains 8 chapters that discuss and explore these positive outcomes by delving into how humans perceive and respond to the natural world. It also looks at the different stages of human development and how societal perspectives regarding natural landscapes have changed over time. These perspectives influence our responses to current issues such as climate change and pandemics. Examining our worldviews is critical to developing a deeper understanding of human beliefs and relationships with natural landscapes. Moreover, empirically based theories and models can be useful in enhancing that understanding, but other realities are also important such as traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and a rekindling of a sense of connection with nature. Whether empirically derived in recent decades or handed down through the generations, this knowledge can be useful as we consider the many forms of human well-being, including physical, mental, spiritual, and social.

scholarly journals Delivering Post-Secondary STEM Education on the North Slope, Alaska: Resilience and Adaptation

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Nicholas-Figueroa ◽  
Raymond Barnhardt ◽  
Lawrence Duffy ◽  
Kriya Dunlap ◽  
Mary Van Muelken ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stem Education ◽  
Traditional Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Alaska Native ◽  
Boarding Schools ◽  
Tribal College ◽  
North Slope ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Western Science ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
The North

<p>Prior to the 1960s, the majority of rural students seeking an education moved from their village to regional population hubs to attend boarding schools. Based on western curricula, boarding schools did not recognize traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). Post-secondary education opportunities were only available in Fairbanks, Anchorage or Sitka, however, TEK or Alaska Native world views were not addressed in science course offerings. Upon gaining the right to provide education at the local level, the North Slope Borough (NSB) of Alaska incorporated Iñupiat educational philosophies into the educational system. The NSB, in partnership with the University of Alaska Fairbanks, established Iḷisaġvik College, the only tribal college in Alaska. Now independently accredited, Iḷisaġvik offers 2-yr academic degrees and certificates in Allied Health programs, and is developing science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programs. Iḷisaġvik seeks to broaden STEM education on the North Slope to meet the needs of employers and research in fields such as climate science. Courses bridging TEK and western science have been developed as a means of introducing STEM education to North Slope students. These courses include summer science camps, workshops, college curriculum, and internships. Relationships between local and visiting educators, scientists, community scholars, and Elders facilitate closing the TEK and western science gap.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Science, Education, Tribal College, Alaska Native, Traditional Ecological Knowledge</p>

Adapting systematic conservation planning for climate change

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
April E. Reside ◽  
Nathalie Butt ◽  
Vanessa M. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Conservation Planning ◽  
Systematic Conservation Planning

scholarly journals An Oceania Urban Design Agenda Linking Ecosystem Services, Nature-Based Solutions, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Wellbeing

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 12660
Author(s):  
Gabriel Luke Kiddle ◽  
Maibritt Pedersen Zari ◽  
Paul Blaschke ◽  
Victoria Chanse ◽  
Rebecca Kiddle
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Traditional Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Marine Ecosystem ◽  
Urban Climate ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Human Wellbeing

Many coastal peri-urban and urban populations in Oceania are heavily reliant on terrestrial and marine ecosystem services for subsistence and wellbeing. However, climate change and urbanisation have put significant pressure on ecosystems and compelled nations and territories in Oceania to urgently adapt. This article, with a focus on Pacific Island Oceania but some insight from Aotearoa New Zealand, reviews key literature focused on ecosystem health and human health and wellbeing in Oceania and the important potential contribution of nature-based solutions to limiting the negative impacts of climate change and urbanisation. The inextricable link between human wellbeing and provision of ecosystem services is well established. However, given the uniqueness of Oceania, rich in cultural and biological diversity and traditional ecological knowledge, these links require further examination leading potentially to a new conceptualisation of wellbeing frameworks in relation to human/nature relationships. Rapidly urbanising Oceania has a growing body of rural, peri-urban and urban nature-based solutions experience to draw from. However, important gaps in knowledge and practice remain. Pertinently, there is a need, potential—and therefore opportunity—to define an urban design agenda positioned within an urban ecosystem services framework, focused on human wellbeing and informed by traditional ecological knowledge, determined by and relevant for those living in the islands of Oceania as a means to work towards effective urban climate change adaptation.

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