The Online Books Page

Traditional ecological knowledge

Here are entered works on the knowledge acquired by Indigenous and local peoples through direct contact with their environment over a long period of time.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Experiential learning
• Ethnoscience

• Ethnoecology

• Traditional ecological knowledge -- Arctic regions
• Traditional ecological knowledge -- Zimbabwe

• Indigenous ecological knowledge
• Indigenous environmental knowledge
• T.E.K. (Traditional ecological knowledge)
• TEK (Traditional ecological knowledge)
• Traditional environmental knowledge

• Because This Land is Who We Are: Indigenous Practices of Environmental Repossession (New York et al.: Bloomsbury Academic, c2024), ed. by Chantelle Richmond, Brad Coombes, and Renee Pualani Louis
  • HTML and PDF with commentary at Bloomsbury Collections
  • PDF and EPub with commentary at OAPEN

• Biocultural Diversity and Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Human Ecology in the Arctic (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2009), by Karim-Aly S. Kassam (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• The Mobile Workshop: The Tsetse Fly and African Knowledge Production (Cambridge, MA and London; et al: MIT Press, 2018), by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Forest Preservation in a Changing Climate: REDD+ and Indigenous and Community Rights in Indonesia and Tanzania (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), by Sébastien Jodoin (HTML and PDF files at Cambridge University Press)

• Impacts of a Warming Arctic: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (2004), by Susan Hassol (PDF files in Norway)

• Two Archaeological Studies in Northern Arizona: The Pueblo Ecology Study, Hail and Farewell; and A Brief Survey Through the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River (Museum of Northern Arizona bulletin #30; Flagstaff: Northern Arizona Society of Science and Art, 1958), by Walter W. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Lifeways in the Northern Maya Lowlands: New Approaches to Archaeology in the Yucatán Peninsula (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c2006), ed. by Jennifer P. Mathews and Bethany A. Morrison (multiple formats with commentary at Open Arizona)

• Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on The Ecological Indian (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c2007), ed. by Michael Eugene Harkin and David Rich Lewis (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• The Mobile Workshop: The Tsetse Fly and African Knowledge Production (Cambridge, MA and London; et al: MIT Press, 2018), by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Homes of the Freed (New York: New Republic, 1926), by Rossa B. Cooley, contrib. by J. H. Dillard, illust. by Julius J. Lankes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Combining Service and Learning in Higher Education: Evaluation of the Learn and Serve America Higher Education Program, by Maryann Jacobi Gray, Elizabeth Heneghan Ondaatje, Ronald D. Fricker, Sandy A. Geschwind, Charles A. Goldman, Tessa Kaganoff, Abby E. Robyn, Melora Sundt, Lori Vogelgesang, and Stephen P. Klein (PDF files at rand.org)

• ...So They Understand...: Cultural Issues in Oral History (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2002), ed. by William S. Schneider (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Circumstantial Deliveries (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981), by Rodney Needham (HTML at UC Press)