Download or read book Examining the Reintroduction of Indigenous Cultivation and Management Practices in State led Parks and Protected Areas in BC written by Samantha McGee and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In British Columbia, like many places in Canada and beyond, environmental agencies, organizations, and conservation practitioners are grappling with how to address Indigenous dispossession and decolonize conservation. One approach gaining traction is to initiate projects that partner with Indigenous communities to reintroduce cultivation and management practices within the boundaries of parks and protected areas. This research assesses if and how such initiatives may help state-led conservation to move beyond 'fortress conservation' in the province. Specifically, it examines the institutional and budgetary structures of Parks Canada and BC Parks and explores how they shape the planning, implementation, and outcomes of actual projects that reintroduce Indigenous cultivation and management practices inside state-led protected areas. Data includes key informant interviews with Parks Canada and BC Parks staff, participant observation notes, and relevant legislation, policy, and public documents. Results show that several projects are underway in BC, most occurring within newer types of protected areas designations. Interviewees stated that these projects help their agencies meet ecological and social mandates and catalyze opportunities for Indigenous communities to utilize lands, waters, and resources within park boundaries. However, data and analysis also suggest that institutional policy, legislative, and budgetary structures are limiting the ongoing potential of projects. Structural changes at the highest level should be considered to institutionalize and adequately resource these practices as a formal mandate of state-led conservation.
Download or read book Do Protected Areas Support Cultural Survival written by Yumi Kanaoka and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis addresses the question of whether or not today's protected areas, as widespread formal means for nature conservation, are compatible with indigenous cultures. By reviewing case studies of various protected areas on indigenous lands, the thesis examines the degree to which protected areas are influenced by dominant Western culture and discusses the connections between protected area policies and European colonial practices. The study suggests that protected area policies are highly infused with Western-influenced values and norms, and are often imposed upon indigenous societies in the same manner as colonial policies. Today, protected areas on indigenous lands are in greater demand due to increasing public concern over the loss of biological diversity and the growing political significance of environmental issues. However, there is a definite possibility that the expansion of protected areas will further weaken indigenous cultures, thereby posing threats to the world's diverse approaches to conservation that are still found in surviving indigenous communities.
Download or read book Salvaging Nature written by Marcus Colchester and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BG (copy 1): From the John Holmes Library collection.
Download or read book Keeping it Living written by Douglas Deur and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keeping It Living brings together some of the world'smost prominent specialists on Northwest Coast cultures to examinetraditional cultivation practices from Oregon to Southeast Alaska. Itexplores tobacco gardens among the Haida and Tlingit, managed camasplots among the Coast Salish of Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia,estuarine root gardens along the central coast of British Columbia,wapato maintenance on the Columbia and Fraser Rivers, and tended berryplots up and down the entire coast. With contributions from a host of experts, Native American scholarsand elders, Keeping It Living documents practices ofmanipulating plants and their environments in ways that enhancedculturally preferred plants and plant communities. It describes howindigenous peoples of this region used and cared for over 300 speciesof plants, from the lofty red cedar to diminutive plants of backwaterbogs.
Download or read book BC Parks Guideline written by BC Parks and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Principles and Guidelines for Ecological Restoration in Canada s Protected Natural Areas written by Canadian Parks Council and published by National Parks Directorate Parks Canada Agency. This book was released on 2008 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Caring for Eeyou Istchee written by Monica E. Mulrennan and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do Indigenous communities in Canada balance the development needs of a growing population with cultural commitments and responsibilities as stewards of their lands and waters? Caring for Eeyou Istchee recounts the extraordinary experience of the James Bay Cree community of Wemindji, Quebec, who partnered with a multi-disciplinary research team to protect a territory of great cultural significance in ways that respect community values and circumstances. By addressing fundamental questions such as what should be protected and how, Indigenous and non-Indigenous partners reveal how protected area creation presents a powerful vehicle for Indigenous stewardship, biological conservation, and cultural heritage protection.
Download or read book Protected Areas Indigenous Peoples and Reconciliation in the United States of America written by Chance Nicholas Finegan and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines the relationship between the Chinook Indian Nation and United States National Park Service (NPS) at two small national parks along the Columbia River Lewis and Clark National Historical Park and Fort Vancouver National Historic Site. Despite a tendency to have poor relations with Indigenous nations, the NPS has at these two sites built a strong, positive working relationship with the Chinook Indian Nation. Through sharing circles and semi-structured interviews, this research traces the development of this relationship and identifies lessons-learned and best-practices that may be instructive for staff working at parks where the NPS/Indigenous relationship is more strained. This research integrates settler-colonial studies with park management. It asks if the NPS/Chinook relationship is an example of decolonized or reconciliatory park management. I conclude that, while the NPS and Chinook 1) have much to be proud of in their work together and 2) are challenging some of the ways in which settler-colonialism continues to be enacted (e.g., making concerted efforts to present Indigenous as well as settler narratives for park visitors), the parks are not necessarily decolonizing, for current efforts are not directly concerned with ensuring future Chinooks will live as citizens of a prosperous, sovereign Indigenous Tribe re-connected with its ancestral territory and culture. I assert that 1) reconciliation and decolonization are ongoing relationships, not end states, and 2) the good NPS/Chinook relationships staff at these two sites have demonstrate how to renew park/Indigenous relationships at a micro-level. This dissertation uses stories told to me by NPS staff and Chinook Elders to identify lessons-learned and best-practices emerging from these two parks. I draw on three stories (in particular, the partial reconstruction of the Village at Fort Vancouver, the carving of Okulam, and the Qiqyaqilxam project) to highlight these lessons. It is primarily through sustained personal engagement that the NPS and Chinook have developed a strong, positive relationship. Yet, focusing on personal relationships will only take settlers and Indigenous peoples part of the way towards reconciliation.
Download or read book Conservation Through Cultural Survival written by Stan Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century the creation of national parks and protected areas was a major threat to the survival of indigenous peoples. Parks based on wilderness ideals outlawed traditional ways of life and forced from their homelands peoples who had shaped and preserved local ecosystems for centuries. Conservation Through Cultural Survival chronicles and assesses cutting-edge efforts to establish new kinds of parks and protected areas that are based on partnerships with indigenous peoples. It provides detailed case studies from Nepal, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Nicaragua, Honduras, Canada, and Alaska, and offers guidelines, models, and recommendations for international action.
Download or read book Conservation Through Cultural Survival written by Stanley Stevens and published by Shearwater Books. This book was released on 1997-04 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assessment of efforts to establish parks and protected areas based on partnerships with indigenous peoples. It chronicles new conservation thinking and the establishment of indigenously-inhabited protected areas, provides case-studies, and offers guidelines, models, and recommendations for international action.
Download or read book Sustaining Our Protected Areas System written by British Columbia. Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks. Legacy Panel and published by The Panel. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ecological Integrity in British Columbia s Parks and Protected Areas written by BC Parks and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bridging the Gap written by Helen Leake and published by UN. This book was released on 2007 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bulletin is a continuous publication since 1949, and provides information on developments in drug control at the local, national, regional, and international levels that can be of benefit to the international community. This issue is about world cannabis situation, and looks at the technical aspects of cannabis production, cannabis consumption, and at what is known about cannabis markets in regions around the world, highlighting the universality of the problem, as well as at the impact of cannabis.
Download or read book Tourism in National Parks and Protected Areas written by Paul F. J. Eagles and published by CABI. This book was released on 2002 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the state of the art of tourism planning and management in national parks and protected areas. It also provides guidelines for best practice in tourism operations. Other objectives are to: Describe case studies and guidelines that contribute to conservation of biological diversity; consider the role of local communities within or near these areas; outline the development of tourism infrastructure and services; discuss visitor management; provide guidelines to enhance the quality of the tourism experience. The focus is global and the book will appeal to both academics and practitioners.
Download or read book Natural Cycles of Change in BC Protected Areas written by BC Parks and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shifting Cultivation and Environmental Change written by Malcolm Cairns and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shifting cultivation is one of the oldest forms of subsistence agriculture and is still practised by millions of poor people in the tropics. Typically it involves clearing land (often forest) for the growing of crops for a few years, and then moving on to new sites, leaving the earlier ground fallow to regain its soil fertility. This book brings together the best of science and farmer experimentation, vividly illustrating the enormous diversity of shifting cultivation systems as well as the power of human ingenuity. Some critics have tended to disparage shifting cultivation (sometimes called 'swidden cultivation' or 'slash-and-burn agriculture') as unsustainable due to its supposed role in deforestation and land degradation. However, the book shows that such indigenous practices, as they have evolved over time, can be highly adaptive to land and ecology. In contrast, 'scientific' agricultural solutions imposed from outside can be far more damaging to the environment and local communities. The book focuses on successful agricultural strategies of upland farmers, particularly in south and south-east Asia, and presents over 100 contributions by scholars from around the world and from various disciplines, including agricultural economics, ecology and anthropology. It is a sequel to the much praised "Voices from the Forest: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge into Sustainable Upland Farming" (RFF Press, 2007), but all chapters are completely new and there is a greater emphasis on the contemporary challenges of climate change and biodiversity conservation.
Download or read book B C Increases Protected Areas System written by British Columbia. Ministry of Environment and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
