Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Sustainable Development: Towards Coexistence

In the Way of Development: Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects and Globalization

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 72-91

  McGregor, Deborah ^a,b  

^a Shawanoswe School in Whitefish River First Nation   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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