Marie Roué

Knowledge and foresight: the predictive capacity of traditional knowledge applied to environmental assessment

research team APSONAT “Appropriation et Socialisation de la Nature”, which investigates the relationship between societies and nature, including their knowledge and representations. Her research focuses on Sami reindeer herders in northern Norway and the Inuit and Cree First Nation of northern Quebec. Email: roue@mnhn.fr Douglas Nakashima is team leader of UNESCO’s cross-cutting LINKS (Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems) project. His research interests include the knowledge, practice and world-view of the Inuit and the Cree First Nation of northern Canada. Email: d.nakashima@unesco.org They recently collaborated on a joint publication: Indigenous Knowledge, Peoples and Sustainable Practice (2002). Knowledge and foresight: the predictive capacity of traditional knowledge applied to environmental assessment