Sacred Ecology
Learning from Indigenous Knowledge and Stewardship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23256314 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fikret Berkes |
| Year | 2026 |
| Publication date | 2026-02-05 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Reviewed by | Sacred Ecology: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Resource Management, Paul Robbins, 2000 |
| Venue | Sacred Ecology (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003473381 |
| OpenAlex | W7127997445 |
| ISBN | 9781003473381 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 647 |
Sacred Ecology examines knowledge held by Indigenous peoples and local communities around the world, and asks how we can learn from this body of knowledge and practice. Berkes explores the importance of Indigenous ways of knowing as a complement to ecology and environmental science, and its cultural and political significance for traditional peoples themselves. With updates of relevant web links and over 300 new references, this fifth edition provides increased voice for Indigenous authors and contains much new material, including a new chapter.
Complement (music) · Cultural ecology · Human ecology · Indigenous · Politics · Traditional knowledge · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
Biocultural Diversity and Indigenous Ways of Knowing
Concepts and Methods in Studies Measuring Individual Ethnobotanical Knowledge
Time, Complexity, and Historical Ecology
Role of traditional ecological knowledge on field margin vegetation in sustainable development
Exploring farmers' agrobiodiversity management practices and knowledge in clove agroforests of Madagascar
Who knows, who cares? Untangling ecological knowledge and nature connection among Amazonian colonist farmers
Defining socioecological reciprocity
Land, ethics, justice, and Aldo Leopold
The relevance and resilience of protected areas in the Anthropocene
The Value of Tropical Biodiversity in Rural Melanesia
The loneliness of the long-distance ethnobotanist
Values-led management
Compensating Indigenous social and cultural losses
Biological and Ecological Mechanisms Supporting Marine Self-Governance
Expert and Generalist Local Knowledge about Land-cover Change on South Africa’s Wild Coast
Culturally induced range infilling of eastern redcedar
Integrating local knowledge and science
Women's local knowledge of water resources and adaptation to landscape change in the mountains of Veracruz, Mexico
Local and regional strategies for rebuilding fisheries management institutions in coastal British Columbia
Like the plains people losing the buffalo
From Invisibility to Transparency
Rules Compliance and Age
Shaping people-place bonds in citizen science
Biocultural stewardship, Indigenous and local ecological knowledge, and the urban crucible
Fishful Thinking
Fifteen Weddings and a Funeral
Community owned solutions
Culturally significant fisheries
Natural resources knowledge socialization in Yucatan, Mexico
Traditional ecological knowledge among transhumant pastoralists in Mediterranean Spain
Opportunities to utilize traditional phenological knowledge to support adaptive management of social-ecological systems vulnerable to changes in climate and fire regimes
A new direction for water management? Indigenous nation building as a strategy for river health
Strong ethics and flexible actions, the properties of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), as key resources for socioecological resilience to the impacts of climate change
Adaptive capacity
Community-Based Conservation and Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Using Inuit traditional ecological knowledge for detecting and monitoring avian cholera among Common Eiders in the eastern Canadian Arctic
Integration of Local Ecological Knowledge and Conventional Science
Restoring human and more-than-human relations in toxic riskscapes
The Many Elements of Traditional Fire Knowledge
Regional Variation in Non-Timber Forest Product Harvest Strategies, Trade, and Ecological Impacts
Ancient clam gardens, traditional management portfolios, and the resilience of coupled human-ocean systems
Quantitative, qualitative, and collaborative methods
Surprise ecologies
Local Management Practices for Dealing with Change and Uncertainty
The Use of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Forest Management
The Problem of Scale in Indigenous Knowledge
Linking Future Ecosystem Services and Future Human Well-being
Changing times, changing stories
The Identification of Potential Resilient Estuary-based Enterprises to Encourage Economic Empowerment in South Africa
Professional ecological knowledge
Resilience and adaptability of traditional healthcare systems
Global environmental change
Clam hunger and the changing ocean
Temporal Stability in Fishing Spots
Democratizing conservation science and practice
Spatial Organization of Environmental Knowledge
Voices of the Caribou People
Everything revolves around the herring
Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Ecological Science
Restricting pesticides on a traditional crop
Flavor or Forethought
Designing for resilience
Integrating hunter knowledge with community-based conservation in the Pamir Region of Tajikistan
Moving beyond the human-nature dichotomy through biocultural approaches
A values-centered relational science model
The social nature of environmental knowledge among the nomadic Woɗaaɓe of Niger
Linking Hunter Knowledge with Forest Change to Understand Changing Deer Harvest Opportunities in Intensively Logged Landscapes
Integrating Traditional and Evolutionary Knowledge in Biodiversity Conservation
The challenges of maintaining indigenous ecological knowledge
What happens at the gap between knowledge and practice? Spaces of encounter and misencounter between environmental scientists and local people
Indigenous fire management
Use of Wood Resources in Central Argentina
An Ethnobotany Research Training Workshop in Madagascar
As relações sociedade/natureza sob a perspectiva de co-evolução
Sítios naturais sagrados
Monitoramento e desempenho de indicadores participativos em sistemas tradicionais de produção de erva-mate no Centro-Sul e no Vale do Iguaçu, Paraná, Brasil
Modelos propositivos para gestão pesqueira e ambiental na região do Albardão, sul do Rio Grande do Sul
Sabedorias, cosmologias e estratégias de caçadores numa unidade de conservação da Amazônia
Bem Viver e Ecossocioeconomias
Homem e "natureza" em um parque nacional do sul do Brasil
Participatory Design of a Monitoring Protocol for the Small-Scale Fisheries at the Community of Tarituba, Paraty, Rj, Brazil
A integração da pesquisa ao conhecimento ecológico local no subsídio ao manejo
Gestão integrada e participativa da pesca artesanal
Rumo a uma abordagem integrada da conservação e uso sustentável da biodiversidade
El oficio de pajareros, una práctica biocultural viva de México
Ethnomedicinal plants of the Loita Maasai of Kenya
Integrating fishers’ knowledge on fish use with ecological networks to assess the ‘silent threat’ of mercury contamination in tropical marine and freshwater fisheries
River use profile of the Central Niger Delta based on traditional eco-livelihood knowledge (Telk)
Accounting for the mismanagement of tropical nearshore fisheries
Community engagement in the sustainable management of rivers
The role of traditional knowledge policies in Egypt
Beyond fishermen’s tales
Poisoning the body to nourish the soul
Power relations and community involvement in landscape-based cultural heritage management practice
Managing beyond designations
(Re)Visiting the North
The Earth Keepers Solid Waste Management Planning Program
“First You Have To Get Outside”
The Impact of Economic Development in James Bay, Canada
On the Origin of Pupa Sabiak
| Unique citing works | 647 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 11,35 |
| Citation span | 1969 - 2026 (58) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 511 |