This paper focuses on traditional ecological knowledge perspectives, which is integral to my final paper.
This quotation stuck out to me (from the introduction):
“In the exploration of environmental ethics and religion toward an ecologically sustainable society, indigenous peoples and traditional ecological knowledge have attracted considerable attention from both scholars and popular movements.”
One section in the paper discusses Western science versus traditional ecological knowledge. For example:
“Some of the conflict between science and traditional knowledge is related to claims of
authority over knowledge. In the modernist tradition, Western science is seen as having a
monopoly on truth.” (p.4)