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Nancy Turner
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Latest papers
Opinion: Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016 · senior author
Ethnoveterinary medicines used to treat endoparasites and stomach problems in pigs and pets in British Columbia, Canada.
Veterinary parasitology · 2007
Ethnoveterinary medicines used for ruminants in British Columbia, Canada.
Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2007
Latest funding
- $15,000
Symposium on affirming Indigenous peoples' land rights with ethnoecology and ethnobotany: strategies for Canada's future
SSHRC · 2016 · Principal investigator
- $231,600
Historical ecology of cultural keystone places of the northwest coast
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
- $25,000
Nourishing relations: people plants and place
SSHRC · 2014 · Co-investigator
4 publications.
Opinion: Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment.
Chan KM, Balvanera P, Benessaiah K, Chapman M, Díaz S, Gómez-Baggethun E, Gould R, Hannahs N, Jax K, Klain S, Luck GW, Martín-López B, Muraca B, Norton B, Ott K, Pascual U, Satterfield T, Tadaki M, Taggart J, Turner N
Ethnoveterinary medicines used to treat endoparasites and stomach problems in pigs and pets in British Columbia, Canada.
Lans C, Turner N, Khan T, Brauer G
Ethnoveterinary medicines used for ruminants in British Columbia, Canada.
Lans C, Turner N, Khan T, Brauer G, Boepple W
Ethnoveterinary medicines used for horses in Trinidad and in British Columbia, Canada.
Lans C, Turner N, Brauer G, Lourenco G, Georges K
Symposium on affirming Indigenous peoples' land rights with ethnoecology and ethnobotany: strategies for Canada's future
Principal investigators: Turner, Nancy J.
Keywords: First Nations; ethnobotany; ethnoecology; legal aspects; land rights and title; resource deliberations
Historical ecology of cultural keystone places of the northwest coast
Principal investigators: Lepofsky, Dana
Keywords: historical ecology; northwest coast; ethnoecology; archaeology; cultural landscapes
Nourishing relations: people plants and place
Principal investigators: Cuerrier, Alain
Keywords: international law; international relations; global governance
Resilient places-resilient peoples: elders' voices
Principal investigators: Turner, Nancy J.
Keywords: social-ecological resilience; indigenous knowledge systems; elders' wisdom; sustainable environments; cultural-ecology; transformative learning; community engaged scholarship
First Nations languages in the twenty-first century: looking back, looking forward
Keywords: First Nations language revitalization; First Nations language documentation; youth; indigenous knowledge
Bringing the food back home: applications of archaeological and contemporary food production technologies for the renewal of indigenous food systems in Western Canada
Principal investigators: Turner, Nancy J.
Keywords: indigenous peoples' food systems; ethnoecological restoration; ecological health; cultural health; native plants; traditional ecological knowledge; traditional land and resource management
The dynamics of traditional ecological knowledge acquisition and transmission: an ethnoecological approach in Northern British Columbia
Principal investigators: Turner, Nancy J.
Keywords: indigenous botanical knowledge; ethnohistory; knowledge transmission and acquisition
Textbook of traditional ecological knowledge in Northern British Columbia
Keywords: tradtional ecological knowledge; ethno-biology; eco-cultural restoration and design; participatory research; Nisga'a; Haida; Tsimshian; Tlingit; Tahltan; Northern BC; climate change; post-secondary math/science education; resource management; nutrition
A cultural property community research collaborative
Keywords: art; culture; heritage; social history; community collaboration; knowledge sharing
Traditional animal health care in British Columbia: testing an innovative knowledge dissemination method
Principal investigators: Brauer, Gerhard W.
Keywords: traditional knowledge; medical anthropology; economic botany; ethnoveterinary medicine; veterinary anthropology
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