caa a22 4500 388024917 CHVBK 20180307124935.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199801 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0032247400014959 doi S0032247400014959 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0032247400014959 Scale, context, and application of traditional knowledge of the Canadian north [Elektronische Daten] There is strong contemporary interest in the application of traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) of physical environments and land-use patterns in northern Canada. This interest relates to land claims, land-use planning, cultural preservation, resource management, and environmental monitoring. The application of TEK to land and resource management is critically examined and a typology relating scale, user group, and the transformation of knowledge is developed. Of the many challenges facing the incorporation of TEK in resource-management initiatives, perhaps the greatest is the recognition of the appropriateness of scale. The conclusions reached in this paper reaffirm the notion that scale and context are key components in maintaining the validity and integrity of TEK. The primary role of TEK appears to be with providing the most valid and intelligible interpretations of local geographies and prescribing locally appropriate resource-management strategies. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Duerden Frank School of Applied Geography, Ryerson Polytechnic University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3, Canada Kuhn Richard G. Department of Geography, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada Polar Record Cambridge University Press 34/188(1998-01), 31-38 0032-2474 34:188<31 1998 34 POL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247400014959 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247400014959 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Duerden Frank School of Applied Geography, Ryerson Polytechnic University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3, Canada NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kuhn Richard G. Department of Geography, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Polar Record Cambridge University Press 34/188(1998-01), 31-38 0032-2474 34:188<31 1998 34 POL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge