Call for Posters
"Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Applying Principals of Sustainability to
Inhabited Wilderness Resource Management"
8th World Wilderness Congress
3-5 October 2005
Anchorage, Alaska
Abstract Submission Deadline: Sunday, 31 July 2005
For further session information, please contact:
Davin Holen, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
E-mail: davin_holen [at] fishgame.state.ak.us
For further information about the 8th World Wilderness Congress, please
go to:
http://www.8wwc.org/program/gen_program.htm
The following poster session will be held as part of the "Evolving
Relationships Between People and Wilderness" working session at the 8th
World Wilderness Congress. The working sessions of the conference will
be held in Anchorage Alaska from 3-5 October 2005. The poster session is
titled "Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Applying Principals of
Sustainability to Inhabited Wilderness Resource Management."
This poster session will be interactive and participants will:
- through their posters share knowledge concerning traditional resource
management and sustainable use of wild resources from their region of
the world,
- work with other participants to develop a list of principles utilized
by various cultures world-wide for managing their traditional harvests
and maintaining wilderness use areas, and
- in a group brainstorm ways to apply these principles to modern
resource management or human activities in wilderness areas.
A panel of discussants will review session findings and provide
recommendations for incorporating indigenous principles into
contemporary wilderness/ resource management.
Participants are invited to submit abstracts of 500 words or less for
their poster that details concepts and practices reflecting the
traditional ecological knowledge/local knowledge of groups with whom
they work. Posters could include resource management considerations to
be addressed such as:
- taxonomy practices and ideas,
- cultural beliefs concerning resources,
- monitoring and recording of harvests and uses,
- regulations and management of resources,
- harvest methods, and
- harvest technology relating to "conservation" measures.
We would like to involve a wide range of participants both in terms of
geography and ideas. Practitioners, academics, and students are invited
to participate.
Please submit your abstracts by Sunday, 31 July 2005 to:
Davin Holen
Division of Subsistence
Alaska Department of Fish and Game
333 Raspberry Road
Anchorage, AK 99518
E-mail: davin_holen [at] fishgame.state.ak.us
For further information about the 8th World Wilderness Congress, please
go to:
http://www.8wwc.org/program/gen_program.htm