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Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference

2014

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West Coast Aquatic Marine Planning Approach: Integrating Cultural Ecosystem Services, Jennifer Spencer, Andrew Day May 2014

West Coast Aquatic Marine Planning Approach: Integrating Cultural Ecosystem Services, Jennifer Spencer, Andrew Day

Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference

West Coast Aquatic and Planning RoleWest Coast Aquatic (WCA) is a forum for governments, communities, and businesses to work together on the health and wealth of the West Coast of Vancouver Island (WCVI) marine area. Most recently, WCA recently produced and approved a Coastal Strategy for the West Coast, which outlines principles, values, goals and objectives for the region. The Coastal Strategy also includes priority action areas, one of which is marine spatial planning in Barkley and Clayoqout Sounds.The WCA approach to marine spatial planning includes the development of an adaptive planning tool, which provides a Sound-wide spatial depiction of …


"An Uncultivated Waste”: Balancing Cultural Ecosystem Services And Differing Values In The Salish Sea Region, Nancy Turner May 2014

"An Uncultivated Waste”: Balancing Cultural Ecosystem Services And Differing Values In The Salish Sea Region, Nancy Turner

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In Northwestern North America, as elsewhere in the world, First Peoples’ stories reflect the gifts of Nature to humans – what we now call “cultural ecosystem services” – and the ways in which places and species are imbued with cultural meaning. All around the Salish Sea, such stories, told in the range of Indigenous languages and dialects spoken across the area, have been passed from generation to generation since time immemorial: How the Salmon People came and taught the Saanich People how to fashion their reefnets of willow bark; How Xáls, the Creator, turned people who had transgressed cultural laws …