1 Knowledge and wisdom: learning from our ancestors’ relationship with nature

With the climate crisis escalating, scientists, ecologists and researchers around the globe are turning to traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), indigenous local knowledge (ILK) or Native Science to get a deeper understanding of the reciprocal relationship between humans and the natural world.

These sources of knowledge will be discussed in this unit, as well as how they can be drawn on in learning about sustainability. These traditional sources of knowledge and understanding can be drawn on to design the ecologically sustainable transformations required in the next decades.