Nibi and Cultural Affordance at Walpole Island First Nations: Environmental Change and Mental Health
Through an application of the Environmental Affordance (EA) Model, this paper explores the impact of environmental degradation on the community at Walpole Island First Nation. We outline how a change in relationships, broadly defined within an Anishinaabek ontology, can impact not only access to the...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:9323914 2023-05-15T13:28:34+02:00 Nibi and Cultural Affordance at Walpole Island First Nations: Environmental Change and Mental Health McKinley, Gerald Patrick Darnell, Regna Jacobs, Dean Williams, Naomi 2022-07-15 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9323914/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35886475 https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148623 en eng MDPI http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9323914/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35886475 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148623 © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). CC-BY Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Text 2022 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148623 2022-07-31T03:18:35Z Through an application of the Environmental Affordance (EA) Model, this paper explores the impact of environmental degradation on the community at Walpole Island First Nation. We outline how a change in relationships, broadly defined within an Anishinaabek ontology, can impact not only access to the local ecosystem but also how the affordances offered are lost. We base our argument on the local knowledge that nibi (water) is the system upon which all life depends and should therefore be the centre of efforts to maintain community-level mental health. Through the EA model we articulate the need to shift the focus from a human-centered ecosystem services model to an Anishinaabek relational ontology where relationships within ecosystems are bidirectional. As such, when those relationships are damaged through environmental degradation, local mental health and wellness are put at risk. Text anishina* First Nations PubMed Central (PMC) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19 14 8623 |
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Through an application of the Environmental Affordance (EA) Model, this paper explores the impact of environmental degradation on the community at Walpole Island First Nation. We outline how a change in relationships, broadly defined within an Anishinaabek ontology, can impact not only access to the local ecosystem but also how the affordances offered are lost. We base our argument on the local knowledge that nibi (water) is the system upon which all life depends and should therefore be the centre of efforts to maintain community-level mental health. Through the EA model we articulate the need to shift the focus from a human-centered ecosystem services model to an Anishinaabek relational ontology where relationships within ecosystems are bidirectional. As such, when those relationships are damaged through environmental degradation, local mental health and wellness are put at risk. |
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