Course Details
Country:
Finland
Institution:
University of Helsinki
Course Title:
Sustainable Stewardship of Nature and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge
Course Number:
KUKA-AL216
Course Description:
This course studies sustainability from a cultural perspective, highlighting Indigenous traditional knowledge and relationships between Indigenous people and organizations that manage protected spaces of nature such as national parks. This course studies sustainability from a cultural perspective, highlighting Indigenous traditional knowledge and relationships between Indigenous people and organizations that manage protected spaces of nature such as national parks.. A river can be a person. In 2017, the Maori of New Zealand received confirmation from their country's government that the Te Awa Tupua River is a legal entity. For the Maori, the river, like many other-than-human species, has always had its own personality, which has been respected and taken into account in various ceremonies. Now the government, which operates mainly through the Western worldview and value system, has accepted a different way of interpreting the world around it. There are hundreds of Indigenous peoples in the world and their cultures, worldviews,
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
INTS 299
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