Long-Term Local Knowledge, Historically-Bound Science, and the Politics of Environmental Policy Changes: New Roles for Northern Peoples and Scientists.

In this paper I address four issues as an anthropologist and social scientist: social studies of science and some of its implications for global climate change research, ethnologies of local knowledge of environment and environmental changes, an analysis of some problematic contributions of scientis...

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Main Author: Feit, Harvey A.
Other Authors: Anthropology
Format: Conference Object
Language:English
Published: University of Lapland [Finland], Arctic Center 2001
Subjects:
Local Knowledge
Climate Change
Science is Historical
National Science
Environmental Politics
Social Studies of Science
Northern Peoples
Arctic
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11375/23932
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Summary:In this paper I address four issues as an anthropologist and social scientist: social studies of science and some of its implications for global climate change research, ethnologies of local knowledge of environment and environmental changes, an analysis of some problematic contributions of scientists to policy-making, and the need for new policy initiatives by climate change scientists and local peoples. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

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