Fikret Berkes
Fikret Berkes (born 1945) is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba's Natural Resources Institute.[1][2] Berkes studies community-based natural resources management in societies around the world.
Career[]
Berkes earned his PhD in Marine Sciences at McGill University in 1973.[3] In 1974, rather than continuing on with a postdoctoral position in marine ecology, Berkes worked with an anthropologist, Harvey Feit, studying Cree people's fishing.[4]
Berkes taught at Brock University, then became the Director of the NRI at the University of Manitoba in 1991.[1][5]
Awards[]
In 2014, Berkes won the Sustainability Science Award of the Ecological Society of America for his third (2012) edition of Sacred Ecology.[6]
He has also been awarded the International Union for Conservation of Nature CEESP Inaugural Award for Meritorious Research (2016) and the IASC Elinor Ostrom Award for Senior Scholar (2015).[5]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Dr. Fikret Berkes". University of Manitoba Natural Resources Institute Faculty. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
- ^ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SiWbHxQAAAAJ
- ^ "eLIBRARY ID: 7086684". Elibrary. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
- ^ Berkes, Fikret (2012). Sacred Ecology (third ed.). Routledge.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Fikret Berkes, FRSC". Council of Canadian Academies. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
- ^ "The Ecological Society of America's History and Records". Ecological Society of America. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
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