INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF RUSSIA AND THEIR TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURECHALLENGES

摘要

Sustainability science seeks to understand the interactions between society and nature, specifically the interaction of global processes with the ecological and social characteristics of particular places and sectors. It recognizes that the well-beingof human society is closely related to the well-being of natural ecosystems. The knowledge and experience of local communities are important parts of this relationship that need to be acknowledged and respected. Thus, sustainability science needs to draw on the collective intellectual resources of both formal sciences and local knowledge systems.