Past ISE Institutional Fellows
2005-2007 – Oxford University-Based Senior Fellow – Dr. Jan Salick
Dr. Jan Salick was the first ISE Institutional Fellow, based at Oxford University (2005-2007)
Dr. Jan Salick is an ethnoecologist whose work has included research on manioc in Latin America, the study of indigenous Yanesha agriculture and forestry management in the Peruvian Amazon, non-timber forest products and natural forest management in Nicaragua and Costa Rica, ethnoecology of the Dusun in Borneo, and most recently Tibetan ethnobotany in the eastern Himalayas. The Tibetan Ethnoecology and Traditional Resource Rights project works with local groups to fortify traditional ecological knowledge under pressure from political domination, Han population influx, acute poverty, and global markets. The project also seeks to apply traditional ecological knowledge to pressing conservation and sustainable development problems in the region, and to support traditional resource rights.
As a Darrell Posey Senior Fellow based at Oxford University, Dr. Salick collaborated with a wide range of University departments and institutes to help build the field of ethnoecology. These included: the Centre for Brazilian Studies, the Department of Plant Sciences, the Environmental Change Institute, Queen Elizabeth House, the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, and Green College.
Dr. Salick gives lectures and tutorials, holds research and other seminars, and collaborates with a range of colleagues on issues relating to ethnoecology and traditional resource rights. Read more about Dr. Salick’s work.
U.S. and Tibetan plant collectors display medicinals.
In 2007, Dr. Salick and ISE member Anja Byg organized a symposium on ethnoecology and climate change, which they hosted with colleagues at The Oxford University Centre for the Environment’s Environmental Change Institute, Oxford, UK, April 12-13, 2007. Many of the presentations given at the conference are available online. The important contributions of Indigenous and traditional ethnoecological knowledge to our understandings of the situated effects of climate change, were also covered in the media.
In 2005-2007, Dr. Salick:
- Began the Darrell Posey Ethnobotany Reading Group at Oxford University with presentations by guest speakers
- Began research on Tibetan perceptions of climate change
- Gave a seminar at Queen Elizabeth House to Development Studies on “Chinese Concepts of Development and Tibetan Reality”
- As part of an NSF IGERT grant, toured Tibet and met with government and conservation groups in the area to prepare the way for incoming students
- Presented at the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting in St. Louis to discuss the relevance of Indigenous Knowledge to contemporary science
- Attended Society for Economic Botany (SEB) annual meeting in Thailand in early June and presented “Tibetan Land Use and Change”
- Attended the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) meeting in Southeast Asia (Kunming, China) and presented her Tibetan work on land use and change but within a symposium on that same topic with people from throughout the eastern Himalayas, which gave a great comparative regional perspective on land use in Nepal, NE India, Bhutan, Tibet, and NW Yunnan.
- Organised and hosted a symposium on ethnoecology and climate change in Oxford, UK, April 12-13, 2007.
During her time as an Senior Fellow at Oxford University, Dr. Salick produced six publications:
Law, W. and J. Salick. Comparing Conservation Priorities for Useful Plants among Botanists and Tibetan Doctors. Biodiversity and Conservation.
Salick, J., A. Byg, A. Amend, B. Gunn, W. Law, H. Schmidt 2006. Tibetan Medicine Plurality. Economic Botany.
Salick, J., A. Amend, D. Anderson, K. Hoffmeister, B. Gunn and Fang Z. D. 2006. Tibetan Sacred Sites Conserve Old Growth Trees in the Eastern Himalayas. Biodiversity and Conservation.
Salick, J. 2006. To collect or to cultivate: A Conundrum. Comparative population ecology of Ipecac (Psychotria ipecacuanha), a neotropical understory herb. In DA Posey and MJ Balick (eds) Human Impacts on Amazonia: The Role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Conservation and Development. Columbia University Press, pp 193-209.
Toledo, M. and J. Salick 2006. Secondary Succession and Indigenous Management in Semi-deciduous Forest Fallows of the Amazon Basin. Biotropica 38: 161-170.
Toledo, M., J. Salick, B. Loiselle, and P. Jorgensen 2005. Composicion floristica y usos de bosques secundarios en la provincia Guarayos, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Ecologia y Conservacion Ambiental 18: 1-16.
2005-2007 Becario basado en la Universidad de Oxford – Dr. Jan Salick
Dr. Jan Salick Dra. Jan Salick es una etnoecóloga cuyo trabajo ha incluido investigación sobre la mandioca en América Latina, el estudio del manejo forestal y de agricultura de los indígenas Yanesha en la amazonía peruana, el manejo de productos no maderables en Nicaragua y Costa Rica, la etnoecología de los Dusun en Borneo, y más recientemente etnobotania tibetana en los himalayas del este. El proyecto Etnobotania Tibetana y Derechos de Recursos Tradicionales trabaja con grupos locales para fortificar el conocimiento ecológico tradicional bajo presión de la denominación política, aflujo de población Han, pobreza, y los mercados globales. El proyecto busca aplicar conocimientos ecológicos tradicionales a problemas de desarrollo sostenible y conservación en la region y para apoyar los derechos de recursos tradicionales. Como un becario con base en la Universidad de Oxford, Dra. Salick va a colaborar con un amplio de departamentos e institutos para ayudar construir el campo de etnoecología. Incluyen: el Centro para Estudios Brasileños, el Departamento de Ciencias de Plantas, el Instituto de Cambio Ambiental, la Casa de Queen Elizabeth, el Instituto de Antropología Social y Cultural, y el Green College. Dra. Salick dará charlas y clases particulares, dictará conferencia, hará investigación colaborando con varias colegas en temas relacionado con etnoecología y derechos de recursos tradicionales.
