“Recent studies have underscored that conservationists can learn a lot from traditional ecological knowledge about successful resource management,” Professor of Anthropology John Ziker writes. “Some experts argue that traditional knowledge needs a role in global climate planning, because it fosters strategies that are ‘cost-effective, participatory and sustainable.'”
John Ziker
John P. Ziker is a professor of anthropology at Boise State University. He began field research in northern Siberia in 1992. His book, Peoples of the Tundra: Northern Siberians in the Post-Communist Transition, summarizes that work in the Taimyr Autonomous Region. Subsequently, he has worked in the north Baikal region, the Tuva Republic in Siberia, and in central Mozambique. Ziker is also a co-PI on a study of how social networks affect adoption of evidence-based instructional practices among faculty in STEM departments, and most recently he started a project on interactions of climate change and industrial development in the Arctic.