Halifax

A Clash in Cultures? Reconciling Aboriginal Perspectives with Conservation in Canada

2014 Ransom A. Myers Lecture in Science and Society

7:30pm
- 9:00pm
Thursday October 9 2014

Speaker: Dr. Donna D. Hurlburt, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia

Synopsis: The application of Aboriginal knowledge in environmental decision-making has been the subject of much debate. Some argue that Indigenous knowledge systems are laden with socio-political values and have no place alongside impartial Western science, whereas other believe that the two bodies of knowledge are complementary. In the 2014 Myers Lecture on Science and Society, conservation biologist Donna Hurlburt will highlight the opportunities for reconciling multiple forms of ecological knowledge through her experiences as a Mi'kmaw person with scientific training who has worked extensively on the conservation of Species at Risk in Canada.
 
About the Lecture Series: Ransom Aldrich Myers (1952-2007) was a mathematically gifted, intellectually pugnacious, passionately humane individual committed to the unconstrained communication of science to decision-makers and to society. He was appointed Dalhousie University's inaugural Killam Chair in Ocean Studies in 1997. 
Predicated by a desire to address questions of fundamental importance, Ram sought general patterns by applying sophisticated modelling techniques to the analysis of regional and global datasets.  His articles on worldwide declines of large predatory fishes, and the threats these pose to marine ecosystems, are the best known of his more than 150 publications. Ram's scientifically-driven provocations reflected a conviction that the protection of marine biodiversity and ocean ecosystems is a responsibility to future generations that humanity can neither afford, nor has the right, to ignore. This Lecture is funded by the Dalhousie Presidents Office and co-sponsored by the Departments of Biology, Statistics, and Oceanography at Dalhousie University.

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