Nancy Turner
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Nancy Turner's Degrees
- PhD Botany University of British Columbia
- Masters Botany University of British Columbia
- Bachelors Botany University of Victoria
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nancy Jean Turner is a Canadian ethnobiologist, originally qualified in botany, who has done extensive research work with the indigenous peoples of British Columbia, the results of which she has documented in a number of books and numerous articles.
Nancy Turner's Published Works
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Published Works
- Opinion: Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment (2016) (907)
- Cultural Keystone Species: Implications for Ecological Conservation and Restoration (2004) (710)
- Conservation and the Social Sciences (2003) (645)
- TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM OF ABORIGINAL PEOPLES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA (2000) (550)
- Knowledge, Learning and the Evolution of Conservation Practice for Social-Ecological System Resilience (2006) (471)
- “It's so different today”: Climate change and indigenous lifeways in British Columbia, Canada (2009) (310)
- Living on the Edge: Ecological and Cultural Edges as Sources of Diversity for Social—Ecological Resilience (2003) (263)
- Ecosystem Services and Beyond: Using Multiple Metaphors to Understand Human-Environment Relationships (2013) (259)
- Edible and Tended Wild Plants, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Agroecology (2011) (250)
- From Invisibility to Transparency: Identifying the Implications (2008) (228)
- Coming to Understanding: Developing Conservation through Incremental Learning in the Pacific Northwest (2006) (222)
- ‘‘Where our women used to get the food’’: cumulative effects and loss of ethnobotanical knowledge and practice; case study from coastal British Columbia1 (2008) (215)
- “The Importance of a Rose”: Evaluating the Cultural Significance of Plants in Thompson and Lillooet Interior Salish (1988) (213)
- Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples: Nutrition, Botany and Use (1991) (210)
- Comparing instrumental and deliberative paradigms underpinning the assessment of social values for cultural ecosystem services (2014) (192)
- Ethnoveterinary medicines used for ruminants in British Columbia, Canada (2007) (190)
- Why protect nature? Rethinkingvaluesand the environment (2016) (185)
- Keeping It Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America (2005) (183)
- Food plants of coastal First Peoples (1995) (109)
- Ethnoveterinary medicines used for horses in Trinidad and in British Columbia, Canada (2006) (99)
- Adaptive capacity: from assessment to action in coastal social-ecological systems (2017) (98)
- Cultural Keystone Places: Conservation and Restoration in Cultural Landscapes (2015) (86)
- Effective Biodiversity Conservation Requires Dynamic, Pluralistic, Partnership-Based Approaches (2018) (86)
- The ethnobotany of edible seaweed (Porphyra abbottae and related species; Rhodophyta: Bangiales) and its use by First Nations on the Pacific Coast of Canada (2003) (83)
- Indigenous peoples' food systems for health: finding interventions that work (2006) (83)
- Ethnoveterinary medicines used to treat endoparasites and stomach problems in pigs and pets in British Columbia, Canada. (2007) (82)
- Thompson ethnobotany : knowledge and usage of plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia (1990) (81)
- Cultural Management of Living Trees: An International Perspective (2009) (74)
- Ethnobotany of the Nitinaht Indians of Vancouver Island. (1983) (74)
- Plant Technology of First Peoples in British Columbia (1998) (72)
- Contemporary use of bark for medicine by two Salishan native elders of southeast Vancouver Island, Canada. (1990) (65)
- The original free trade : Exchange of botanical products and associated plant knowledge in Northwestern North America (1998) (64)
- Carrier herbal medicine: an evaluation of the antimicrobial and anticancer activity in some frequently used remedies. (1996) (64)
- Kwakwaka’wakw “Clam Gardens” (2015) (63)
- Traditional phenological knowledge of aboriginal peoples in British Columbia (2003) (61)
- Camas (Camassia spp.) and riceroot (Fritillaria spp.): Two liliaceous “root” foods of the Northwest Coast Indians (1983) (61)
- Blundering Intruders: Extraneous Impacts on Two Indigenous Food Systems (2013) (60)
- Ethnobotany: The Study of People-Plant Relationships (2011) (60)
- Determining the Optimal Sowing Density for a Mixture of Native Plants Used to Revegetate Degraded Ecosystems (2006) (58)
- Plant Management Systems of British Columbia’s First Peoples (2013) (53)
- Scientists' Warning to Humanity on Threats to Indigenous and Local Knowledge Systems (2021) (53)
- Historical Ecology of Cultural Keystone Places of the Northwest Coast (2017) (52)
- Values-led management: the guidance of place-based values in environmental relationships of the past, present, and future (2018) (52)
- Food Plants of Interior First Peoples (2007) (49)
- “We Might Go Back to This”; Drawing on the Past to Meet the Future in Northwestern North American Indigenous Communities (2013) (48)
- Traditional ecological knowledge and restoration practice (2006) (46)
- Keeping It Living (2005) (44)
- Biocultural conservation of marine ecosystems: Examples from New Zealand and Canada (2014) (44)
- Counter-irritant and other medicinal uses of plants in Ranunculaceae by native peoples in British Columbia and neighbouring areas. (1984) (42)
- "When everything was scarce": The role of plants as famine foods in northwestern North America (1993) (42)
- Indigenous Climate Change Adaptation Planning Using a Values-Focused Approach: A Case Study with the Gitga'at Nation (2014) (42)
- Medicinal plant treatments for fleas and ear problems of cats and dogs in British Columbia, Canada (2008) (41)
- Common Poisonous Plants and Mushrooms of North America (1992) (38)
- Carrier herbal medicine: traditional and contemporary plant use. (1996) (36)
- "The forest and the seaweed": Gitga'at seaweed, traditional ecological knowledge, and community survival. (2006) (35)
- Ocean Cultures: Northwest Coast Ecosystems and Indigenous Management Systems (2017) (34)
- Nutritional significance of two important root foods (springbank clover and pacific silverweed) used by native people on the coast of British Columbia (1982) (34)
- Determining the availability of traditional wild plant foods: An Example of Nuxalk foods, Bella Coola, British Columbia (1985) (34)
- Organic parasite control for poultry and rabbits in British Columbia, Canada (2011) (34)
- Traditional food systems, erosion and renewal in Northwestern North America (2007) (34)
- Indigenous peoples' food systems for health: finding interventions that work. (2006) (33)
- Informal Rural Economies in History (2004) (32)
- Forensic palynology and ethnobotany of Salicornia species (Chenopodiaceae) in northwest Canada and Alaska (2005) (32)
- “Up On the Mountain”: Ethnobotanical Importance of Montane Sites In Pacific Coastal North America (2011) (31)
- Plant taxonomic systems and ethnobotany of three contemporary Indian groups of the Pacific Northwest (Haida, Bella Coola, and Lillooet) (1973) (31)
- A gift for the taking: the untapped potential of some food plants of North American Native Peoples (1981) (29)
- Global environmental challenges to the integrity of Indigenous Peoples' food systems. (2013) (29)
- Developing Resource Management and Conservation (2006) (28)
- Linking marine conservation and Indigenous cultural revitalization: First Nations free themselves from externally imposed social-ecological traps (2018) (27)
- Indigenous perspectives on ecotourism development: a British Columbia case study (2012) (26)
- "Doing it right": Issues and practices of sustainable harvesting of non-timber forest products relating to First Peoples in British Columbia (2001) (26)
- Kwäday Dän Ts'ìnchì, the first ancient body of a man from a North American glacier: reconstructing his last days by intestinal and biomolecular analyses (2004) (25)
- Kwakwaka ’ wakw B Clam Gardens ^ Motive and Agency in Traditional Northwest Coast Mariculture (2015) (24)
- NINETEENTH CENTURY SHAMAN GRAVE GUARDIANS ARE CARVED FOMITOPSIS OFFICINALIS SPOROPHORES (1992) (24)
- Aboriginal Use of Non-Timber Forest Products in Northw estern North America (2001) (23)
- The Nuxalk Food and Nutrition Program, coastal British Columbia, Canada: 1981-2006. (2009) (23)
- Local Ecological Knowledge and Importance of Bakeapple (Rubus chamaemorus L.) in a Southeast Labrador Métis Community (2011) (22)
- Exploring the potential of food forestry to assist in ecological restoration in North America and beyond (2018) (22)
- Ethnobotany of coniferous trees in Thompson and Lillooet interior salish of British Columbia (1988) (22)
- Plants In British Columbia Indian Technology (1979) (22)
- Conserving the World's Last Great Forest Is Possible: Here's How (2013) (20)
- Medicinal plants used in British Columbia, Canada for reproductive health in pets. (2009) (20)
- “Tinni” Rice (Oryza rufipogon Griff.) Production: An Integrated Sociocultural Agroecosystem in Eastern Uttar Pradesh of India (2011) (19)
- Two important “root” foods of the Northwest Coast Indians: Springbank clover (Trifolium wormskioldii) and Pacific silverweed (Potentilla anserina ssp. pacified) (1982) (19)
- Macronutrients content of Yellow Glacier Lily and Balsamroot; root vegetables used by indigenous peoples of northwestern North America (1997) (17)
- "Burning Mountainsides For Better Crops:" Aboriginal Landscape Burning In Brittish Columbia (1991) (17)
- Edible Wild Fruits and Nuts of Canada (1988) (16)
- The cottonwood mushroom (Tricholoma populinum): a food resource of the Interior Salish Indian peoples of British Columbia (1987) (15)
- "Keeping it living": applications and relevance of traditional plant management in British Columbia to sustainable harvesting of non-timber forest products. (2000) (14)
- Subsistence and Resistance on the British Columbia Coast: Kingcome Village’s Estuarine Gardens as Contested Space (2013) (14)
- Management and Traditional Production of Beaked Hazelnut (k'áp'xw-az', Corylus cornuta; Betulaceae) in British Columbia (2018) (13)
- Sustained by First Nations: European newcomers' use of Indigenous plant foods in temperate North America (2012) (13)
- “The Old Foods Are the New Foods!”: Erosion and Revitalization of Indigenous Food Systems in Northwestern North America (2020) (12)
- A special note on Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Why are you asking our gyan (knowledge) and padhati (practice)?: Ethics and prior informed consent for research on traditional knowledge systems* (2013) (12)
- Consent to Treatment and the Mentally Incapacitated Adult (1999) (12)
- Edible Garden Weeds of Canada (1978) (12)
- “Everything We Do, It's Cedar”: First Nation and Ecologically-Based Forester Land Management Philosophies in Coastal British Columbia (2018) (12)
- Insight Cultural Keystone Species : Implications for Ecological Conservation and Restoration (2004) (11)
- Tending the meadows of the sea: A disturbance experiment based on traditional indigenous harvesting of Zostera marina L. (Zosteraceae) the southern region of Canada’s west coast (2015) (11)
- Economic importance of black tree lichen (Bryoria fremontii) to the Indians of western North America (2008) (11)
- The Nuxalk Food and Nutrition Program for Health revisited. (2013) (11)
- Ethnobotany in the New Europe. People, Health and Wild Plant Resources (2011) (10)
- From “taking” to “tending”: learning about Indigenous land and resource management on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America (2020) (10)
- “We give them seaweed”: Social economic exchange and resilience in Northwestern North America (2016) (9)
- Adopting a Root: Documenting Ecological and Cultural Signatures of Plant Translocations in Northwestern North America (2021) (9)
- Grizzly and polar bears as nonconsumptive cultural keystone species (2021) (9)
- Well grounded: Indigenous Peoples' knowledge, ethnobiology and sustainability (2022) (9)
- Coastal peoples and marine plants on the northwest coast (2001) (8)
- Salmonberry Bird and Goose Woman: Birds, Plants, and People In Indigenous Peoples' Lifeways In Northwestern North America (2016) (8)
- Ethylene Improves Germination of Arrow-leaved Balsamroot Seeds (2006) (7)
- 9. Learning from the Earth, Learning from Each Other: Ethnoecology, Responsibility, and Reciprocity (2018) (7)
- Ethnobotany of the Squamish Indian people of British Columbia (1976) (7)
- Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples (2020) (7)
- Protected land: Many factors shape success (2018) (7)
- Wild green vegetables of Canada (1980) (7)
- Wild coffee and tea substitutes of Canada (1995) (6)
- Establishing GLORIA Long-Term Alpine Monitoring in Southwestern British Columbia, Canada (2009) (6)
- The Nature of Culture and Keystones (2004) (5)
- Hunting for Sustainability in Tropical Forests. Edited by John G. Robinson and Elizabeth L. Bennett, Columbia University Press, New York, 2000, pp. xxi, 1–592. ISBN 0-231-10976-8 (alk. paper); 0-231-10977-6 (pbk.: alk. paper); (www.columbia.edu/cu/cup) (2001) (5)
- Lodgepole Pine Cambium (Pinus contorta Dougl. ex Loud. var. latifolia Engelm. ex S. Wats.): A Springtime First Peoples’ Food in British Columbia (2013) (5)
- Back to the Clam Gardens (2013) (4)
- Secwepemc (Shuswap) tree names: key to the past? (1998) (4)
- "ALL BERRIES HAVE RELATIONS" MID-RANGE FOLK PLANT GROUPINGS IN THOMPSON AND LILLOOET INTERIOR SALISH (2009) (4)
- “You have to do it” : Creating agency for environmental sustainability through experiential education, transformative learning, and kincentricity (2016) (3)
- “That Was Our Candy!”: Sweet Foods in Indigenous Peoples' Traditional Diets in Northwestern North America (2020) (3)
- Reflecting on Ethnobiology from 1978 to 2018: A Dedication to Steve Weber (2018) (3)
- Comparing instrumental and deliberative paradigms which underpin the assessment of social values for cultural ecosystem services (2018) (3)
- “When the Wild Roses Bloom”: Indigenous Knowledge and Environmental Change in Northwestern North America (2022) (2)
- “From the beginning of time”: The colonial reconfiguration of native habitats and Indigenous resource practices on the British Columbia Coast (2022) (2)
- PLANTS IN LANGUAGE AND CLASSIFICATION AMONG BC FIRST NATIONS (2013) (2)
- The grammar of Snchitsu'umshtsn (Coeur d'Alene) plant names (2003) (1)
- Traditional knowledge, Western science and environmental ethics in forest management. (2000) (1)
- "An uncultivated waste”: Balancing Cultural Ecosystem Services and Differing Values in the Salish Sea Region (2014) (1)
- Plants Used in Rearing Locally-grown Organic Small-scale Poultry and Rabbits in British Columbia, Canada (2012) (1)
- Introduction:: Making a Place for Indigenous Botanical Knowledge and Environmental Values in Land-Use Planning and Decision Making (2020) (1)
- Ethnobotany of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians: Subtitle Here (2016) (1)
- Engaging Multiple Disciplines in Ecosystem Services Research and Assessment: A Reply to Orenstein (2013) (1)
- “Roots of Reflection”: Spiritual Aspects of Plant Harvesting, Ethnoecological Practice and Sustainability for Indigenous Peoples of northwestern North America (2016) (1)
- You have to do It (2016) (1)
- Berries as a case study for crop wild relative conservation, use, and public engagement in Canada (2022) (1)
- Nova laser experiments of radiative astrophysical jets (1998) (0)
- Unique Ecologies of British Columbia (2017) (0)
- References for Nutrient Tables (2020) (0)
- Book Reviews (2016) (0)
- Learning New Medicines: Exchanging Medicinal Plant Knowledge amongst Northwestern North American Indigenous and Settler Communities (2018) (0)
- EPILOGUE:: Native Plants, Indigenous Societies, and the Land in Canada’s Future (2020) (0)
- The Food/Medicine/Poison Triangle: Implications for Traditional Ecological Knowledge Systems of Indigenous Peoples of British Columbia, Canada (2021) (0)
- “Frog’s umbrella” and “ghost’s face powder”: The cultural roles of mushrooms and other fungi for Canadian Indigenous Peoples (2021) (0)
- Using Situated Knowledge and Remote Sensing to Assess Climate Change Vulnerability for Coastal Ecosystems of High Cultural Importance (2016) (0)
- Management and Traditional Production of Beaked Hazelnut (k'áp'xw-az', Corylus cornuta; Betulaceae) in British Columbia (2018) (0)
- Kwakwaka’wakw “Clam Gardens” (2015) (0)
- Rate of fungicidal action. (1970) (0)
- Corrigendum: “The Old Foods Are the New Foods!”: Erosion and Revitalization of Indigenous Food Systems in Northwestern North America (2021) (0)
- Ethnobotany and Conservation of Biocultural Diversity (2006) (0)
- "Well Grounded": Traditional Management of Root Vegetables in Northwestern North America (2019) (0)
- Descriptions and Uses of Plant Foods by Indigenous Peoples (2020) (0)
- Trees of Seattle, Second Edition (2007) (0)
- The song of the salmonberry bird: Why diversity matters in nature and culture (2008) (0)
- The Historical Ecology of Laxgalts'ap – a Cultural Keystone Place of the Gitga’ata of Northern British Columbia (2017) (0)
- Correction to: Kwakwaka’wakw “Clam Gardens” (2019) (0)
- Content and Legibility of Outpatient Appointment Letters (1998) (0)
- GROUPE D'EXPERTS SCIENTIFIQUES DE LA CAMPAGNE INTERNATIONALE POUR LA CONSERVATION BORÉALE (2013) (0)
- Nutrient Values of Traditional Plant Foods (2020) (0)
- Synthesis Adaptive capacity : from assessment to action in coastal social-ecological systems (2017) (0)
- Retrospective and Concluding Thoughts (2020) (0)
- Blundering Intruders: Extraneous Impacts on Two Indigenous Food Systems (2013) (0)
- Annual Scientific Retreat: Predisposing Factors in the Development of Complex Diseases (2005) (0)
- Roots of our Renewal: Ethnobotany and Cherokee Environmental Governance by Clint Carroll (review) (2016) (0)
- Outpatient Appointment Letters - Are they Readable? (1998) (0)
- WILSON, Gilbert Livingston. Uses of plants by the Hidatsas of the Northern Plains. Edited and annotated by Michael Scullin. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska & London: 2014. Pp xxxix, 432; illustrated. Price US$ 65.00 (hardback). ISBN 9780803246744. (2015) (0)
- What’s So Special about Indigenous Foods? (2020) (0)
- GENERAL PLANT CATEGORIESIN THOMPSON AND ULLOOET, TWO INTERIOR SALISH LANGUAGES OF BRITISHCOLUMBIA (1987) (0)
- An Overview of the Nutrient Value and Use of Plant Foods by Indigenous Peoples (2020) (0)
- Mountain Top to Ocean Floor: The Eco-cultural History of Hauyat (2017) (0)
- Motivation. Becoming a cheerleader for yourself, your profession. (1988) (0)
- Comprehensive List of Plant Food Species (2020) (0)
- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (2020) (0)
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