Title Traditional ecological knowledge : a collection of essays / edited by Robert E. Johannes

Published Gland, [Switzerland]; Cambridge, U.K. : IUCN, 1989

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Description 77 pages ; 24 cm Series The IUCN conservation library IUCN conservation library. Contents Introduction. Traditional ecological knowledge : a collection of essays / Robert E. Johannes -- A parable of fire : hunter-gatherers in Canada and Australia / Henry T. Lewis -- !Kung knowledge of animal behaviour / 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 Analysis Environment Perception By Humans Bibliography Bibliography: pages 71-77 Subject Agricultural conservation. Agricultural ecology. Biotic communities. Conservation of natural resources. Ecology. Environmental protection. Ethnobotany. Ethnology. Human ecology -- Case studies. Nature conservation. Author Johannes, R. E. (Robert Earle), 1936-2002. International Union for Conservation of Nature. ISBN 2880329981

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