Thora Martina Herrmann
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 612313 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Thora Martina Herrmann |
| NOMBRES | Thora Martina |
| APELLIDO | Herrmann |
| FIRMA | HERRMANN T M |
| AFILIACIONES | Université de Montréal |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6485-6022 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Horizontal portability
Relational values feature prominently in recent international efforts to protect global biodiversity. In this article, we provide a conceptual approach for researchers, facilitators and policy‐makers to adequately represent place‐based relational values in assessments of nature's value that inform practice and policy. We suggest employing horizontal portability as an alternative and complement to the dominant mode of assessing nature's value via …
Grassroots relational approaches to agricultural transformation in Latin America
Recent emphasis on market-based mechanisms as the key to solving sustainability challenges has left scholars and activists wringing their hands. This frustration and sense of urgency has been particularly poignant in the issues surrounding food production and land-use change. While creative approaches to promoting sustainable land-uses have abounded, intensive agricultural systems persist as a major cause of biodiversity loss. Mounting evidence i…
Citizen science’s transformative impact on science, citizen empowerment and socio-political processes
Citizen science (CS) can foster transformative impact for science, citizen empowerment and socio-political processes. To unleash this impact, a clearer understanding of its current status and challenges for its development is needed. Using quantitative indicators developed in a collaborative stakeholder process, our study provides a comprehensive overview of the current status of CS in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Our online survey with 340 …
Participatory Video
Indigenous peoples in Canada’s North, especially youth, are increasingly using creative visual arts, such as film, video, and new media technologies to portray their own realities and their personal view of the surrounding environment, thereby contesting colonial, stereotyped media representations of First Peoples. To analyze the youth geography—a sub-discipline of human geography—of nuna (“land” in Inuktitut) and istchee (“land” in Cree) and to …
Être avec les rivières
Les rivières du nord du Québec ont fait l'objet de toutes les attentions depuis les années 1960 et sont au centre des discussions engagées autour de l'exploitation hydro-électrique et, plus largement, du droit d'accès aux terres. De nombreux travaux s'intéressent aux différents points de vue sur les rivières, notamment pour les peuples autochtones dont les modes de vie sont intrinsèquement liés à cet environnement. Cet article explore les relatio…
Improving the relationships between Indigenous rights holders and researchers in the Arctic
Truly transdisciplinary approaches are needed to tackle the complex problems that the Arctic is facing at the moment. Collaboration between Indigenous rights holders and researchers through co-creative research approaches can result in high-quality research outcomes, but crucially also address colonial legacies and power imbalances, enhance mutual trust, and respect the rights of Indigenous Peoples. However, to be successful, collaborative resear…
Santé humaine et santé environnementale des territoires de montagne
Depuis les années 1970, la croissance démographique rapide et l’étalement urbain accéléré de certaines zones de montagne ont conduit à la destruction et à la fragmentation d’espaces naturels fragiles. Cette transformation a provoqué des altérations des paysages et une multiplication des interfaces entre les sphères anthropiques et écologiques, créant ainsi de nouveaux contextes et interactions entre les humains, les animaux et les écosystèmes (Po…
Human and Environmental Health in Mountain Areas
Since the 1970s, rapid population growth and accelerated urban sprawl have led to the destruction and fragmentation of natural areas in mountains. This transformation has caused landscape alterations and an increase in interfaces between the anthropogenic and ecological spheres, in turn creating new contexts and opportunities for interactions between humans, animals, and ecosystems
Adolescences et identité en territoire inuit
La jeunesse inuit est aujourd’hui confrontée à de nombreux défis. Elle habite en effet des territoires intégrés à la mondialisation, néanmoins situés aux marges de l’écoumène et donc en prise avec l’isolement géographique et ses conséquences en termes de mobilités, d’accès à différents services de santé, d’éducation et même de biens de première nécessité. Les jeunes Inuit du Nunavik évoluent dans une société multiculturelle où les effets de la co…
Imagined foodways
In this study, we examined the social and spatial representations the Nunavimmiut have of their contemporary foodways. Based on Anderson’s concept of ‘imagined communities’ [1991. Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism (Rev. ed.). Verso books], we drew on the notion of ‘imagined foodways’ to capture the cultural and territorial distance between imagined and actual dietary patterns. With the spatial organization …
Public perceptions of non-native plant species on a Chilean sub-Antarctic island
Humans are the main drivers of the introduction, establishment and spread of non-native species worldwide but they have traditionally been excluded from management. Nowadays, the social component of non-native species is increasingly considered. In this paper, we investigated understanding, perceptions and attitudes towards management of non-native herbaceous plant species on Navarino, a remote Chilean sub-Antarctic island. Overall, our study sho…
How children in northern Canada represent the wolverine through drawings
This study explores the perception of wolverines, a carnivore in decline, by youths in northern Canada, the future generation of stakeholders. To accomplish this, we analysed 165 drawings from children and 22 interviews with Indigenous adults in the Northwest Territories and Quebec. Overall, children primarily drew wolverines in healthy environments, with only a minority depicting the wolverine’s environment negatively. All children demonstrated …
Children's Perception of Wolverine in the North Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada
The public’s level of knowledge and opinions towards certain species can greatly impact their willingness to support present or future conservation or management programs. When public opinion is mixed, as is often the case with wild carnivores, an accurate assessment of perceptions and knowledge can identify areas of concern and help guide public outreach efforts. When such outreach programs focus on children they can be particularly effective fo…
I think it is the toughest animal in the North’
The wolverine (Gulo gulo), a carnivore species of ‘Special Concern’ for its western population and ‘Endangered’ for its eastern population, is of special management concern in Canada. Hence understanding human-wolverine relationships and human perceptions toward this carnivore species has become important. Moreover, wolverines are harvested for fur in northern Canada, thus hunters and trappers who live in the vicinity with this species are key st…
Learning and insights from a participatory photography project with Cree and Inuit about the land (Nunavik, Canada)
In the Arctic, participatory researches that build bridges between Western academics and indigenous communities are increasing and are necessary to promote what Raheja [2007. Reading nanook’s smile: Visual sovereignty, indigenous revisions of ethnography, and atanarjuat (The Fast Runner). American Quarterly, 59(4), 1159–1185.] called ‘visual sovereignty’ and narrative sovereignty of the people of the North. This research project was carried out w…
Soutenir la sécurité alimentaire dans le Grand Nord
Face aux grands défis de la sécurité alimentaire dans les villages du Nunavik et du Nunavut, le développement d'une agriculture nordique est envisagé comme une solution innovante. Visant la santé et le bien-être des communautés inuit, l'implantation d'une serre communautaire permet d'accroître l'offre en produits frais locaux et d'améliorer la qualité de l'alimentation, dans une démarche durable tenant compte de la dimension culturelle de la sécu…
Land tenure and conflict propagation
In its most recent history, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has taken central stage in two interstate wars and multiple civil conflicts with trans-border dynamics. Somewhat less well known is the fact that the DRC is also a prime example of a different, continent-wide African problematic: the precarity of land rights and resulting conflicts over land tenure. This paper is part of a study that explores interactions between tenure conflicts …
The Recognition of Sacred Natural Sites of Arctic Indigenous Peoples as a Part of Their Right to Cultural Integrity
Sacred Natural Sites (SNS) are an important means for the expressions and transmission of culture, and a manifestation of spiritual values of nature, which have contributed to the conservation of species and habitats. However, many SNS are increasingly under threat, and their contribution to conservation is still not sufficiently recognized by states and conservation agencies, laws and policies. With a growing recognition of the mutual dependency…
Cree Hunters’ Observations on Resources in the Landscape in the Context of Socio-Environmental Change in the Eastern James Bay
This article examines the understanding of Cree hunters in relation to shifts in landscape resources and in particular the availability of two key subsistence wildlife species (i.e. Canada geese and woodland caribou) as a result of climatic and socio-environmental changes and their subsequent impacts on Cree subsistence activities and Cree culture. These results are based on questionnaires and interviews conducted among Cree hunters of the Easter…
Values, animal symbolism, and human-animal relationships associated to two threatened felids in Mapuche and Chilean local narratives
BackgroundThe Chilean temperate rainforest has been subjected to dramatic fragmentation for agriculture and forestry exploitation. Carnivore species are particularly affected by fragmentation and the resulting resource use conflicts with humans. This study aimed at understanding values and human-animal relationships with negatively perceived threatened carnivores through the disclosure of local stories and Mapuche traditional folktales.MethodsOur…
Understanding subarctic wildlife in Eastern James Bay under changing climatic and socio-environmental conditions
The Canadian Subarctic is undergoing climatic and environmental changes which are leading to wide-ranging implications for wildlife, ecosystems and aboriginal communities. Through their long-term experience and observations, Cree hunters of the Eastern James Bay are aware of the local manifestations of changes to animal ecology. This article presents and analyses Cree observations of the effects of altering climatic and environmental conditions o…
Socioenvironmental changes in two traditional food species of the Cree First Nation of subarctic James Bay
Socioenvironmental changes in Canada's northern regions are likely to have wide-ranging implications for the health of its residents. Aboriginal communities are among the first to face the direct impacts of changes, as their lifestyles tend to be more closely tied to and reliant upon the natural environment. Based on field research, this paper documents observations of socio-environmental changes made by members of the Cree Trappers Association (…
Traditional Knowledge, Use Practices and Conservation of Medicinal Plants for HIV/Aids Care in Rural Tanzania
HIV/AIDS pandemic is currently the most socio-economic challenge that faces Tanzania as it affects mostly the young and most economically productive population. People living with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania are susceptible to fungal and bacterial opportunistic infections, which are a major cause of mortality and morbidity in the country. Despite the government’s intervention to provide ARVs to people living with HIV/AIDS, many of them especially those …
Spiritual Beliefs and Ecological Traditions in Indigenous Communities in India
From time immemorial, local and indigenous communities in India have developed traditions, representations, and beliefs about the forest and biodiversity. The cultural practices and beliefs of a community play a significant role in enhancing community-based initiatives, particularly in achieving sustainability in the long term. Nevertheless, too often conservation policies do not take into consideration the link between the culture of local commu…
Biodiversity Conservation versus Rural Development
The recent development in biodiversity conservation policy and the creation of protected areas in many developing countries have often brought about a conflict between local populations, their domestic government and development institutions. These policies have very often ignored the dependence of local communities on natural resources for their day-to-day lives and have contributed to their marginalization. The conservation of natural resources…
Values, animal symbolism, and human-animal relationships associated to two threatened felids in Mapuche and Chilean local narratives
BackgroundThe Chilean temperate rainforest has been subjected to dramatic fragmentation for agriculture and forestry exploitation. Carnivore species are particularly affected by fragmentation and the resulting resource use conflicts with humans. This study aimed at understanding values and human-animal relationships with negatively perceived threatened carnivores through the disclosure of local stories and Mapuche traditional folktales.MethodsOur…
Santé humaine et santé environnementale des territoires de montagne
Depuis les années 1970, la croissance démographique rapide et l’étalement urbain accéléré de certaines zones de montagne ont conduit à la destruction et à la fragmentation d’espaces naturels fragiles. Cette transformation a provoqué des altérations des paysages et une multiplication des interfaces entre les sphères anthropiques et écologiques, créant ainsi de nouveaux contextes et interactions entre les humains, les animaux et les écosystèmes (Po…
Spiritual Beliefs and Ecological Traditions in Indigenous Communities in India
From time immemorial, local and indigenous communities in India have developed traditions, representations, and beliefs about the forest and biodiversity. The cultural practices and beliefs of a community play a significant role in enhancing community-based initiatives, particularly in achieving sustainability in the long term. Nevertheless, too often conservation policies do not take into consideration the link between the culture of local commu…
Socioenvironmental changes in two traditional food species of the Cree First Nation of subarctic James Bay
Socioenvironmental changes in Canada's northern regions are likely to have wide-ranging implications for the health of its residents. Aboriginal communities are among the first to face the direct impacts of changes, as their lifestyles tend to be more closely tied to and reliant upon the natural environment. Based on field research, this paper documents observations of socio-environmental changes made by members of the Cree Trappers Association (…
Roost Sites and Communal Behavior of Andean Condors in Chile
The Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) is an endangered species. Even southern Patagonia, home to the most stable and abundant populations of Andean condors, is witnessing increasing pressure from development and tourism. Taking the case of Torres del Paine National Park, in the Chilean Patagonia, we examine monitoring of condor populations at roosting sites and communal bird behavior in response to humans as an effective tool for bird conservation w…
Land tenure and conflict propagation
In its most recent history, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has taken central stage in two interstate wars and multiple civil conflicts with trans-border dynamics. Somewhat less well known is the fact that the DRC is also a prime example of a different, continent-wide African problematic: the precarity of land rights and resulting conflicts over land tenure. This paper is part of a study that explores interactions between tenure conflicts …
Cree Hunters’ Observations on Resources in the Landscape in the Context of Socio-Environmental Change in the Eastern James Bay
This article examines the understanding of Cree hunters in relation to shifts in landscape resources and in particular the availability of two key subsistence wildlife species (i.e. Canada geese and woodland caribou) as a result of climatic and socio-environmental changes and their subsequent impacts on Cree subsistence activities and Cree culture. These results are based on questionnaires and interviews conducted among Cree hunters of the Easter…
Changing forest conservation and management paradigms
This paper first explores the shift now occurring in the science that provides the theoretical basis for forest conservation and management. The paper then presents the concepts of traditional ecological knowledge and traditional management systems and practise to provide background for two case studies that examine traditional knowledge and forest management practices of tribal communities in the Sariska region (Rajasthan, India) and of the indi…
Biodiversity Conservation versus Rural Development
The recent development in biodiversity conservation policy and the creation of protected areas in many developing countries have often brought about a conflict between local populations, their domestic government and development institutions. These policies have very often ignored the dependence of local communities on natural resources for their day-to-day lives and have contributed to their marginalization. The conservation of natural resources…
Roost Sites and Communal Behavior of Andean Condors in Chile
The Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) is an endangered species. Even southern Patagonia, home to the most stable and abundant populations of Andean condors, is witnessing increasing pressure from development and tourism. Taking the case of Torres del Paine National Park, in the Chilean Patagonia, we examine monitoring of condor populations at roosting sites and communal bird behavior in response to humans as an effective tool for bird conservation w…
Traditional Knowledge, Use Practices and Conservation of Medicinal Plants for HIV/Aids Care in Rural Tanzania
HIV/AIDS pandemic is currently the most socio-economic challenge that faces Tanzania as it affects mostly the young and most economically productive population. People living with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania are susceptible to fungal and bacterial opportunistic infections, which are a major cause of mortality and morbidity in the country. Despite the government’s intervention to provide ARVs to people living with HIV/AIDS, many of them especially those …
Spiritual Beliefs and Ecological Traditions in Indigenous Communities in India
From time immemorial, local and indigenous communities in India have developed traditions, representations, and beliefs about the forest and biodiversity. The cultural practices and beliefs of a community play a significant role in enhancing community-based initiatives, particularly in achieving sustainability in the long term. Nevertheless, too often conservation policies do not take into consideration the link between the culture of local commu…
Understanding subarctic wildlife in Eastern James Bay under changing climatic and socio-environmental conditions
The Canadian Subarctic is undergoing climatic and environmental changes which are leading to wide-ranging implications for wildlife, ecosystems and aboriginal communities. Through their long-term experience and observations, Cree hunters of the Eastern James Bay are aware of the local manifestations of changes to animal ecology. This article presents and analyses Cree observations of the effects of altering climatic and environmental conditions o…
Socioenvironmental changes in two traditional food species of the Cree First Nation of subarctic James Bay
Socioenvironmental changes in Canada's northern regions are likely to have wide-ranging implications for the health of its residents. Aboriginal communities are among the first to face the direct impacts of changes, as their lifestyles tend to be more closely tied to and reliant upon the natural environment. Based on field research, this paper documents observations of socio-environmental changes made by members of the Cree Trappers Association (…
The Recognition of Sacred Natural Sites of Arctic Indigenous Peoples as a Part of Their Right to Cultural Integrity
Sacred Natural Sites (SNS) are an important means for the expressions and transmission of culture, and a manifestation of spiritual values of nature, which have contributed to the conservation of species and habitats. However, many SNS are increasingly under threat, and their contribution to conservation is still not sufficiently recognized by states and conservation agencies, laws and policies. With a growing recognition of the mutual dependency…
Cree Hunters’ Observations on Resources in the Landscape in the Context of Socio-Environmental Change in the Eastern James Bay
This article examines the understanding of Cree hunters in relation to shifts in landscape resources and in particular the availability of two key subsistence wildlife species (i.e. Canada geese and woodland caribou) as a result of climatic and socio-environmental changes and their subsequent impacts on Cree subsistence activities and Cree culture. These results are based on questionnaires and interviews conducted among Cree hunters of the Easter…
Values, animal symbolism, and human-animal relationships associated to two threatened felids in Mapuche and Chilean local narratives
BackgroundThe Chilean temperate rainforest has been subjected to dramatic fragmentation for agriculture and forestry exploitation. Carnivore species are particularly affected by fragmentation and the resulting resource use conflicts with humans. This study aimed at understanding values and human-animal relationships with negatively perceived threatened carnivores through the disclosure of local stories and Mapuche traditional folktales.MethodsOur…
Soutenir la sécurité alimentaire dans le Grand Nord
Face aux grands défis de la sécurité alimentaire dans les villages du Nunavik et du Nunavut, le développement d'une agriculture nordique est envisagé comme une solution innovante. Visant la santé et le bien-être des communautés inuit, l'implantation d'une serre communautaire permet d'accroître l'offre en produits frais locaux et d'améliorer la qualité de l'alimentation, dans une démarche durable tenant compte de la dimension culturelle de la sécu…
Land tenure and conflict propagation
In its most recent history, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has taken central stage in two interstate wars and multiple civil conflicts with trans-border dynamics. Somewhat less well known is the fact that the DRC is also a prime example of a different, continent-wide African problematic: the precarity of land rights and resulting conflicts over land tenure. This paper is part of a study that explores interactions between tenure conflicts …
Children's Perception of Wolverine in the North Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada
The public’s level of knowledge and opinions towards certain species can greatly impact their willingness to support present or future conservation or management programs. When public opinion is mixed, as is often the case with wild carnivores, an accurate assessment of perceptions and knowledge can identify areas of concern and help guide public outreach efforts. When such outreach programs focus on children they can be particularly effective fo…
I think it is the toughest animal in the North’
The wolverine (Gulo gulo), a carnivore species of ‘Special Concern’ for its western population and ‘Endangered’ for its eastern population, is of special management concern in Canada. Hence understanding human-wolverine relationships and human perceptions toward this carnivore species has become important. Moreover, wolverines are harvested for fur in northern Canada, thus hunters and trappers who live in the vicinity with this species are key st…
Learning and insights from a participatory photography project with Cree and Inuit about the land (Nunavik, Canada)
In the Arctic, participatory researches that build bridges between Western academics and indigenous communities are increasing and are necessary to promote what Raheja [2007. Reading nanook’s smile: Visual sovereignty, indigenous revisions of ethnography, and atanarjuat (The Fast Runner). American Quarterly, 59(4), 1159–1185.] called ‘visual sovereignty’ and narrative sovereignty of the people of the North. This research project was carried out w…
Imagined foodways
In this study, we examined the social and spatial representations the Nunavimmiut have of their contemporary foodways. Based on Anderson’s concept of ‘imagined communities’ [1991. Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism (Rev. ed.). Verso books], we drew on the notion of ‘imagined foodways’ to capture the cultural and territorial distance between imagined and actual dietary patterns. With the spatial organization …
Public perceptions of non-native plant species on a Chilean sub-Antarctic island
Humans are the main drivers of the introduction, establishment and spread of non-native species worldwide but they have traditionally been excluded from management. Nowadays, the social component of non-native species is increasingly considered. In this paper, we investigated understanding, perceptions and attitudes towards management of non-native herbaceous plant species on Navarino, a remote Chilean sub-Antarctic island. Overall, our study sho…
How children in northern Canada represent the wolverine through drawings
This study explores the perception of wolverines, a carnivore in decline, by youths in northern Canada, the future generation of stakeholders. To accomplish this, we analysed 165 drawings from children and 22 interviews with Indigenous adults in the Northwest Territories and Quebec. Overall, children primarily drew wolverines in healthy environments, with only a minority depicting the wolverine’s environment negatively. All children demonstrated …
Adolescences et identité en territoire inuit
La jeunesse inuit est aujourd’hui confrontée à de nombreux défis. Elle habite en effet des territoires intégrés à la mondialisation, néanmoins situés aux marges de l’écoumène et donc en prise avec l’isolement géographique et ses conséquences en termes de mobilités, d’accès à différents services de santé, d’éducation et même de biens de première nécessité. Les jeunes Inuit du Nunavik évoluent dans une société multiculturelle où les effets de la co…
Improving the relationships between Indigenous rights holders and researchers in the Arctic
Truly transdisciplinary approaches are needed to tackle the complex problems that the Arctic is facing at the moment. Collaboration between Indigenous rights holders and researchers through co-creative research approaches can result in high-quality research outcomes, but crucially also address colonial legacies and power imbalances, enhance mutual trust, and respect the rights of Indigenous Peoples. However, to be successful, collaborative resear…
Santé humaine et santé environnementale des territoires de montagne
Depuis les années 1970, la croissance démographique rapide et l’étalement urbain accéléré de certaines zones de montagne ont conduit à la destruction et à la fragmentation d’espaces naturels fragiles. Cette transformation a provoqué des altérations des paysages et une multiplication des interfaces entre les sphères anthropiques et écologiques, créant ainsi de nouveaux contextes et interactions entre les humains, les animaux et les écosystèmes (Po…
Human and Environmental Health in Mountain Areas
Since the 1970s, rapid population growth and accelerated urban sprawl have led to the destruction and fragmentation of natural areas in mountains. This transformation has caused landscape alterations and an increase in interfaces between the anthropogenic and ecological spheres, in turn creating new contexts and opportunities for interactions between humans, animals, and ecosystems
Citizen science’s transformative impact on science, citizen empowerment and socio-political processes
Citizen science (CS) can foster transformative impact for science, citizen empowerment and socio-political processes. To unleash this impact, a clearer understanding of its current status and challenges for its development is needed. Using quantitative indicators developed in a collaborative stakeholder process, our study provides a comprehensive overview of the current status of CS in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Our online survey with 340 …
Participatory Video
Indigenous peoples in Canada’s North, especially youth, are increasingly using creative visual arts, such as film, video, and new media technologies to portray their own realities and their personal view of the surrounding environment, thereby contesting colonial, stereotyped media representations of First Peoples. To analyze the youth geography—a sub-discipline of human geography—of nuna (“land” in Inuktitut) and istchee (“land” in Cree) and to …
Être avec les rivières
Les rivières du nord du Québec ont fait l'objet de toutes les attentions depuis les années 1960 et sont au centre des discussions engagées autour de l'exploitation hydro-électrique et, plus largement, du droit d'accès aux terres. De nombreux travaux s'intéressent aux différents points de vue sur les rivières, notamment pour les peuples autochtones dont les modes de vie sont intrinsèquement liés à cet environnement. Cet article explore les relatio…
Geography (20 obras) · Ecology (16 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · Sociology (13 obras) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (12 obras) · Biology (9 obras) · Archaeology (8 obras) · Indigenous (8 obras) · Ecology (7 obras) · Environmental resource management (6 obras)