Table of ContentsIssues and Papers

Table of Contents: Participant Contributions, 2000 

Ecological Knowledge Working Seminar II 

'Exploring and reconciling competing systems of ecologically-framed knowledge: lessons from Maritime Canada and North Atlantic Fisheries'

June 17th - 21st, 2000 

St. Francis Xavier Universtiy
Antigonish, Nova Scotia 

The papers presented here are working drafts of discussion essays prepared by and circulated among many of the seminars' participants.  Several participants have requested that their essays not be made available through the website.  Consequently they have been removed.  However, the participants would welcome questions and queries from interested parties.


1. Dr. Christopher Bear:
 

Ecological Knowledge: A conceptual statement


2. Dr. Christopher Bear:
 

Ecological Knowledge: Key informant approaches for the Gulf of St. Lawrence Lobster Fisheries


3. Dr. Anthony Davis:
 

Thoughts on Approaches ot Designing and Conducting Ecological Knowledge Social Research


4. Nell den Heyer:
 

Reconciling Management and Harvestor Ecological Knowledge Claims


5. Dr. Petter Holm:
 

Realism and Constructivism in the Science of Ecological Knowledge


6. Dr. Jeffrey C. Johnson:
 

The Systematic Collection of TEK


7. Dr. Daniel MacInnes:
 

Comparitive Loal Knowledge in the Lobster Industry


8. Dr. Anita Maurstad:
 

Obstacles to Mapping Fisher Knowledge


9. Dr. Thomas McGuire:
 

Assessing American Eel Stock Assessments through the Use of Focus Groups in a 
Controlled Comparison Setting


10. Dr. Barbara Neis:
 

Draft Research Design and Methodology for FEK Project on Lobster


11. Dr. John Phyne:
 

Ecological Knowledge Claims and the Lobster Fishery: A Research Design

 
12. Dr. Kevin St. Martin:

Operationalizing Ecological Knowledge


13. Dr. Tracey Smith:
 

Social Research and Ecological Knowledge Systems


14. Dr. Douglas Wilson:
 

Research Design Ideas