ENV100H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Gross National Happiness, Mary Midgley, Precautionary Principle

• School: UTSG
• Department: School of Environment
• Course: ENV100H1
• Professor: Simon Appolloni

Document Summary

Lecture 8 indigenous worldviews and environmental perspectives. Could be impossible to understand another worldview other than your own. Different worldviews are different ways of telling a story. Worldview influences who are the knowledge seekers/holders, how they investigate natural phenomena, how theories are developed, how knowledge is generated, produced, and shared. Worldview and environmental understanding indigenous understanding and relationships to the natural world, environment, creation is embedded within the worldview of society and culture from which it originates. Indigenous knowledge knowledge that is unique to a given culture or society. Ik contrasts with the international knowledge system generated by universities, research institutions. Indigenous perspective is not the same as indigenous knowledge. For thousands of years, indigenous peoples have created and passed on knowledge resulting in sustainable relationships with all of creation. Along with knowledge comes the responsibility to maintain our relationships with all being in creation and creation itself.