Resilience, Reciprocity and Ecological Economics

University of British Columbia, Canada

• 1. Sustainability Needs Tested Ideas from the Pacific Northwest, 2. Why it is So Difficult to Learn from Aboriginal North America, 3. A Partial Policy Framework Already Exists, 4. Gifts: Indian Giving Creates Consumption Connections to Mirror Ecosystem Connections 5. Chiefs: Empower Generous Facilitators to Resolve Conflicts, 6. Contingency: Community limits on Individual Behavior Promote Resilience, 7. Comparison of indigenous and industrial salmon management, 8. Relicensing of Kerr Dam on the Flathead Indian Reservation, 9: Nisga’a Nation and Treaty, 10: Dams and Salmon on the Lower Snake River, 11. The NW System Encourages Adaptive Management

"This anthropological and sociological study sets out to show how human systems connect environmental ethics and sustainable ecological practices through institutions. Based on the case of the Northwest Coast of America, the author asks, firstly, how one group of indigenous societies managed to live sustainably with their ecosystems for over 2,000 years, and secondly, whether the answer to this question can inform the current debate about sustainability in today’s social ecological systems." - Journal of Consumer Policy