Jennifer Sepez

Biographic Data

ID664079
NAMEJennifer Sepez
GIVEN NAMESJennifer
FAMILY NAMESepez
SIGNATURESEPEZ J
AFFILIATIONSNOAA National Marine Fisheries Service
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX2

  • Commons and markets: Opportunities for Development of Local Sustainability

    I Vaccaro, Laura C Zanotti et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Politics2009Cited by: 4References: 34

    Development studies have often evolved amidst a tension between the tendency to declare all forms of communal management archaic and in need of modernisation via privatisation and market integration, and the temptation to essentialise indigenous management with nostalgia while vilifying market impacts. Closer examination suggests that common property systems will not simply collapse under market pressure, or create defensive bulwarks to maintain …

  • Historical Ecology Of Makah Subsistence Foraging Patterns

    Open AccessJennifer SepezARTICLEJournal of Ethnobiology2008

    This research explores continuity and change in foraging patterns over time by comparing data from ancient, historic, and contemporary time periods for the Makah Indians, a Pacific Northwest coast tribe. Zooarchaeological evidence from the late-prehistoric Ozette village middens is compared to quantitative data from a foraging harvest survey conducted with contemporary tribal members. The intervening historic-period foraging pattern is interprete…

  • Historical Ecology Of Makah Subsistence Foraging Patterns

    Open AccessJennifer SepezARTICLEJournal of Ethnobiology2008References: 7

    This research explores continuity and change in foraging patterns over time by comparing data from ancient, historic, and contemporary time periods for the Makah Indians, a Pacific Northwest coast tribe. Zooarchaeological evidence from the late-prehistoric Ozette village middens is compared to quantitative data from a foraging harvest survey conducted with contemporary tribal members. The intervening historic-period foraging pattern is interprete…

  • Unalaska, Alaska: Memory and denial in the globalization of the Aleutian landscape

    Jennifer Sepez, Christina Package et al.ARTICLEPolar Geography2007

    This paper explores the history and globalization of the landscape of Unalaska, Alaska, an island in the Aleutian chain.The history of the area is characterized by successive waves of occupation and resource extraction by the geopolitical powers of Asia and North America, which began with Russian colonization.Unalaska's landscape is littered with World War II debris that still echoes of Japanese attacks and the bitter memory of US-ordered evacuat…

  • A Quantitative Model for Ranking and Selecting Communities Most Involved in Commercial Fisheries

    Open AccessJennifer SepezARTICLENAPA Bulletin2007References: 2

    This article proposes a quantitative model for ranking commercial fisheries involvement by communities and describes our experience applying this model to North Pacific and West Coast fisheries. Analysis of recent fishing community profiling projects shows that there have been four basic approaches to selecting a manageable number of communities, including focusing on major ports, aggregated regions, representative examples, and the top of a rank…

  • Fish Scales: Scale and Method in Social Science Research for North Pacific and West Coast Fishing Communities

    Jennifer Sepez, K Norman et al.ARTICLEHuman Organization2006

    Under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSFCMA) and other legal mandates, NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is conducting basic social science research on fishing communities. This basic research differs from issue-driven social impact assessments in that it does not address pending policy changes or specified locations. As a consequence, NMFS’s basic social science research must cover very large geograph…

  • The Noaa Fisheries Alaska Native Traditional Environmental Knowledge Database

    Heather Lazrus, Jennifer SepezARTICLEPracticing Anthropology2005

    Anthropologists working in natural resource management agencies have particularly important and interesting roles to play in raising awareness of long-standing relationships between local communities and natural resources, and in promoting means of reflecting this relationship while avoiding potentially harmful outcomes of careless incorporation of traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) in resource management. While there are many different ap…

  • Introduction to Traditional Environmental Knowledge in Federal Natural Resource Management Agencies

    Jennifer SepezARTICLEPracticing Anthropology2005

    The study of traditional environmental knowledge (TEK, also expressed as traditional ecological knowledge) in applied settings is an important and growing field for environmental anthropologists who seek to put the methods and findings of anthropology to work in public and environmental policy contexts. The incredible depth and insight of indigenous environmental knowledge is well known in anthropological circles, and for better or worse, has bee…

  • Treaty Rights and the Right to Culture: Native American Subsistence Issues in US Law

    Open AccessJennifer SepezARTICLECultural Dynamics2002Cited by: 3

    The interplay of treaty rights with the right to culture has produced a variety of results for Native American subsistence hunting and fishing rights in the United States. Where allocation and conservation measures fail to account for cultural considerations, conflict ensues. This article discusses three examples: waterfowl hunting in Alaska, Northwest salmon fishing, and Inuit and Makah whaling. Each demonstrates that treaty rights are a more po…