Resilience, reciprocity and ecological economics : Northwest Coast sustainability
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Resilience, reciprocity and ecological economics : Northwest Coast sustainability
(Routledge studies in ecological economics, 3)
Routledge, 2009
- : hbk
Available at 11 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
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  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
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  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [170]-182) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
How did one group of indigenous societies, on the Northwest Coast of North America, manage to live sustainably with their ecosystems for over two thousand years? Can the answer to this question inform the current debate about sustainability in today's social ecological systems?
The answer to the first question involves identification of the key institutions that characterized those societies. It also involves explaining why these institutions, through their interactions with each other and with the non-human components, provided both sustainability and its necessary corollary, resilience.
Answering the second question involves investigating ways in which key features of today's social ecological systems can be changed to move toward sustainability, using some of the rules that proved successful on the Northwest Coast of North America.
Ronald L. Trosper shows how human systems connect environmental ethics and sustainable ecological practices through institutions.
Table of Contents
1. Sustainability Needs Tested Ideas from the Pacific Northwest, 2. Why it is So Difficult to Learn from Aboriginal North America, 3. A Partial Policy Framework Already Exists, 4. Gifts: Indian Giving Creates Consumption Connections to Mirror Ecosystem Connections 5. Chiefs: Empower Generous Facilitators to Resolve Conflicts, 6. Contingency: Community limits on Individual Behavior Promote Resilience, 7. Comparison of indigenous and industrial salmon management, 8. Relicensing of Kerr Dam on the Flathead Indian Reservation, 9: Nisga'a Nation and Treaty, 10: Dams and Salmon on the Lower Snake River, 11. The NW System Encourages Adaptive Management
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