The first lecture was about the indigenous ecological knowledge and its importance related to cultural transmission and sustainable livings. Otherwise, it gave more information on the resource management and methods in order to develop the use of appropriate technologies for living such as hunting and agriculture, also, it can help people to get experiences and to increase the knowledge about their indigenous resources. The lecturer, Nancy Turner, argued that spreading and sharing the indigenous ecological knowledge is important, and we should keep it because it allows communities to realize their own expertise and apply their own knowledge and practices to help protecting and maintaining the way of lives and living sustainably. Nancy provides some examples, such as seaweed harvesting to support her argument. Also, she detailedly showed how and what is the best time to harvest the seaweed.
From the lecture, I have learned some survival strategies such as how to take care or harvest the existed resources, and it lets me know that spreading indigenous ecological knowledge is one of the most important things that can make the sustainable development progress. People in the community who are closely connected to the local surroundings are usually can timely notice the environmental changes (Inuit Observations on Climate Change, 2013). The reason is their knowledge is derived from long-term observation and caring of the resources. In my opinion, I think the indigenous ecological knowledge can improve the people’s awareness on the environmental protection from the process of the observation and practices; thereby it can enhance and promote the sustainability. Indigenous knowledge is passed from generation to generation, and it is...
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...o live, and our later generation might not access a healthy environment to survive. Therefore, I support Werner’s argument that we should put more focus on the environment, and each of us should pay attention to the behaviors to the environment.
During the question and decision period, there are some students asked something like “do you like your current job and what do you treat the science” because Werner is both a scientist and an activist.. He pointed out that science is a job, and he really likes it. He said that he likes environmental studies, and he thinks it is very exciting to work on the science especially for the climate change. Moreover, when he is doing and being an activist, he can appeal to the public and improve the social awareness on the environmental protection. He quite wants to see a healthy earth and the fast progress on the sustainability.
As we know, the climate change is extremely important issue which is deeply related to our life. Although they have plentiful nature resources and they do get the benefit from the glacier melted, they pay more attention to the long-term development- to protect their nature resources and find solution. Also, this tribe emphasized the development of education, in order to meet more people’s demand, they prepared to build elementary school so that can contain more students. Meanwhile, they had held event to attract more travelers and develop their economic. This tribe become to a more likely modernization
It acts as a mechanism to re-live the past and embrace their spiritual and emotional connection with the land and re-store faith in their future. Readings of their lives and traumas they faced together instead of alone is also a way to look past the shame and embarrassment (Episkenew, 16). “Tribal relations” are also a vital part of their healing and cultural identity that is able to be re-kindled through Indigenous storytelling even theatrical productions. The priority being to heal their mental and emotional health and with the support of each other, this cohesive community stands a better chance at
In order to understand how the traumatic experiences of the past impact on current generations of indigenous peoples, it is crucial to understand the importance of culture and the nature of human relations and development, and precisely what in their history, has led them to their current breakdown. As Halloran (2004) suggested, culture is a shared repository of interrelated knowledge and practices that is maintained and transmitted by the ongoing activities and practices of participants, and it is ...
Throughout the past 3 weeks I have been on ethnobotanical journey that has fueled a greater appreciation for land, knowledge, usages of species and the plants themselves. With little insight I was unsure of the importance of ethnobotany, which has now shifted into a spark to continue learning the extensive amount of knowledge surrounding ethnobotanical practices. We, as a common society, have separated from the natural world. We view uncultivated landscapes as waste, focus nature to change instead of us being proactive and modifying it with traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and we do not participate in our ecosystems. It is evident that through conversations, interactions, stewardship and development with traditional ecological knowledge, we will be able to have a collective society practicing as citizens and not consumers.
Throughout history in North America, the indigenous peoples culture, tradition and religion have always differed from the western way of life. In this essay, I will explore two things. First, I will talk about the indigenous people’s view of the conservation of resources which can also be termed as the traditional ecological knowledge and the economist view of natural resources. Second, I will argue in this essay that by thinking of resources from the traditional ecological point of view, we can better understand why conserving our natural resources is important. I believe that we understanding why conservation of our natural resources is important will go a long way in helping us understand why our individual action affects our ecosystem.
Antarctic’s ice melt and accelerating sea level rise, the growing number of large wildfires, intense heat wave shocks, severe drought and blizzards, disrupted and decreased food supply, and extreme storm events are increasing to happen in many areas world wide and these are just some of the consequences of global warming. The fossil fuel we burn for energy coal, natural gas, and oil plus the loss of forests due to disforestation, in the southern hemisphere are all contributors for climate change. In the past three decades, every single year was warmer then the previous year and the warmest 12 years were recorded since 1998. We are overloading our atmosphere with carbon dioxide and trapping the heat and recently, the carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere reached 400 pmm. Not just environmental issues are rising due to carbon dioxide increase but more and miscellaneous issues are appearing as climate change becomes more severe. For example, regional models and local analyses agree that Mongolia has become noticeably warmer and the climate change effect is damaging their millennial of historic nomadic lifestyle and even came to the peek of extinction. The Mongolian nomadic pastoralists became highly vulnerable to many an unusual climate impacts and extreme temperature fluctuation that have led to inadequate pasture land and loss of enormous number of livestock, often faces hostile environmental conditions that led o entrenched pastoral poverty. This essay focuses on how the climate change impacts the qualitative and quantitative value of indigenous culture and nomadic life style, and how the economy struggles in the magnitudes of massive migration of nomads to urban area while it fails to value t...
The following case study critiques Upton’s vision to establish a sustainable community through implementing comprehensive sustainable strategy. The urban periphery development is thought to demonstrate superior execution of sustainable principles in development (Jackson 2007). As a parallel, the report focuses on the development of Upton’s design code and demonstrates how large -scale mix-use developments can incorporate sustainable practice and principles of urban growth.
Over the centuries the Enga people of Papua New Guinea have adapted certain cultural characteristics to cope with varying environmental and social changes. Some aspects of the Enga peopleís lives that have shown the most cultural adaptation to the surrounding ecosystem are their horticultural practices, system of tribal warfare and clan organization. Through these adaptations, the Enga have gained ways to regulate their population, reduce their risk, control, communal resources, and regulate the environment through rituals. In our paper, we will look at each of these aspects of Enga culture and how they allow the Enga people to live within the environment constraints they are faced with.
According to Indigenous point of view, epistemology is created by three worlds such as physical, human and sacred (Foley, 2003). The physical world compresses with the land, the sky and the flora and the fauna which provide food and is the foundation of culture, spirit and identity of Indigenous tribes (Foley, 2003). Martin & Mirraboopa (2003) also supported the idea of Foley and he said that physical world play a vital role in Indigenous way of knowing. Furthermore, environment including mammals, birds, reptiles, insects or trees are part of being and the relatives of Indigenous people and they believe that they have responsibility to protect and conserve them (Martin & Mirraboopa, 2003). Martin & Mirraboopa (2003) also said that
There are several factors that are attributing to the future of the Inuit tribe, however, the most important is the disappearance of their natural environment the arctic circle. Global climate change, with its resulting loss of sea ice, has opened up access to the Arctic Ocean as never before. Moreover, the rate of global warming and the pace of development are accelerating. Stakeholders have different ideas on how to handle these changes. Depending on one’s perspective, the pace of development seems to be either too fast or too slow; and, like most contentious issues, the best solutions may lie somewhere in the middle.
The Antarctic’s ice melt and the accelerating sea level rise, growing number of large wildfires, intense heat wave shocks, severe drought and blizzards, disrupted and decreased food supply, and the extreme storm events are increasing to happen in many areas world wide, and these are just few of many consequences of global warming. The fossil fuel like coal, natural gas, and oil we burn for energy, plus the loss of forests due to disforestation in the southern hemisphere are also big contributors to climate change. In the past three decades, every single year was warmer then the previous year, and the warmest 12 years were recorded since 1998. We are overburdening our atmosphere with green house emissions and trapping the heat, and recently, the carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere has reached 400 pmm. Not just environmental issues are rising due to carbon dioxide increase, but more and miscellaneous issues are appearing as climate change becomes more severe. For example, regional and local analyses and models agree that Mongolia has become noticeably warmer and this temperature rise is relevant in damaging their millennial of the historic nomadic lifestyle and even brought it to the peek of extinction. The Mongolian nomadic pastoralists became highly vulnerable to many unusual climate impacts and extreme temperature fluctuation that have led to inadequate pastureland and loss of an enormous number of livestock. Herders are facing hostile environmental conditions that led to entrenched pastoral poverty. This essay mainly focuses on the climate change impacts on the qualitative value of indigenous culture and nomadic life style. In addition, there is a starting t...
Sustainability is an issue that everyone should be concerned about. If the planet Earth is going to exist, as we know it, everyone should wake up and do their part to help achieve a greater level of sustainability. In my English 101 class we learned about the issue of sustainability. Many different topics were discussed and researched throughout the course of the semester. Overall, I think that the sustainability project has been a learning and enlightening experience for everyone in this class. Many more things can be done next semester, since the groundwork has been laid to continue this project for time to come.
Other ethical questions such as “How should we- all living today evaluate the well-being of the future generations” (Brome). Scientific data shows that Global climate change will have some lasting effects on the planet, ecosystems and humans. There are many “risks associated with climate change such as the risk of pathogen, and disease” this will affect future generations, and animals this is why we should reduce our emissions of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere (Crank and Jacoby). “The consequences of heightening greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere appear after a time lag, often decades or more” (Somerville). Even though the current generations are “benefiting from cheap use of burning fossil fuels, and using the atmosphere as a free dump for our waste products” all humans are obligated to find a cleaner way to live so we don’t set future humans up for failure (Somerville). Somerville also explains that within us burning these fossil fuels, and ignoring the consequences “we sentence our children and grandchildren to cope with the resulting climate change” (Somerville). Also we need to take action to prevent further damage of Earth’s climate not only for the future children of the world but other species that we share the planet with. In the article “The Ethics of Climate Change” by John Broome he states that the answer to this ethical question can be easy one without the need of a sophisticated philosopher (Broome). He say that the answer to ethical climate change questions can be answered by simple common sense thinking (Broome). “You should not do something for your own benefit that will harm another’s” (Broome). He asks the question which is worse the death of a child in 2108 or the death of a child currently living?” (Broome). John Broome argues that we have a responsibility to
Sustainability is a concept with a diverse array of meanings and definitions – a widely used glamorous, ambiguous, ambivalent and vague concept that is used by different stakeholder groups in various ways. Presumably to avoid noodling over a terminology or to avoid the confrontation with a definition, most widely the concept is broken down a planning process (c.f. e.g. Döring & Muraca, 2010). That is why most common sustainability is understood as sustainable development.1
The Inuit’s have adapted their lifestyle surrounding nature’s land. According to author Sheila Watt-Cloutier (an Inuit born), “the land that is such an important part of our spirit, our culture, and our physical and economic well-being” (Watt-Cloutier, IV). In Right to be Cold, Watt-Cloutier describes how generations have changed habits causing the Artic atmosphere negatively. Firstly, the Inuit’s show empathy by taking care of the land in order to help the community survive. Inuit’s, “tradition hunting and fishing practices do not destroy habitat. Nor do our practices deplete animal populations, or create waste. We use every part of the animals that we harvest” (Watt-Cloutier, V). This culture demonstrates the empathy because the Inuit’s create a sustainable environment to benefit humanity in hope that society as a whole will make a difference. Moreover, Watt-Cloutier works today to try to bring awareness to climate changing affects. Watt-Cloutier believes, “another way to fight for the protection of out planet: to demand that the global community recognize that the well-being of our environment is in itself a fundamental human right. Without a stable, safe climate, people cannot exercise their economic, social or cultural rights” (Watt-Cloutier, XII). Co-nominated with Al-Gore, Watt-Cloutier achieved great success with the ability to enlighten the effects of climate change worldwide. This