Deadline Extended
8th World Wilderness Congress Poster Session
"Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Applying Principals of Sustainability
to Wilderness Resource Management"
Poster Submission Deadline Extended to: Thursday, 1 September 2005
A poster session will be held as part of the "Evolving Relationships
between People and Wilderness" working session at the 8th World
Wilderness Congress. The poster session is titled "Traditional
Ecological Knowledge: Applying Principals of Sustainability to
Wilderness Resource Management."
The session will be held on 4 October 2005 from 1:30 - 5:30 p.m. at the
Anchorage Westward Hilton.
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 session 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.
Organizers 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 electronically or
by mail by Thursday, 1 September 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