Caribou co-management: Realizing conceptual differences

• Main Author: Anne Kendrick
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2002-04-01
• Series: Rangifer
• Subjects: reindeer; caribou; epistemology; knowledge system; management
• Online Access: https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/1655

The conditions allowing innovative collective learning of the unpredictable dynamics of caribou populations may be particularly apparent in co-management settings, especially those settings that foster diverse understandings of caribou ecology. This paper examines co-management, specifically caribou co-management in arctic and subarctic North America, for evidence of diverse conceptual constructs among co-management participants. It is suggested that the learning occurring in cross-cultural co-management settings may lead to the development of the humility necessary for the expression and adaptation of diverse understandings of caribou ecology.