Fikret Berkes

Fikret Berkes is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba's Natural Resources Institute.[1] Berkes studies community-based natural resources management in societies around the world.

Career

Berkes earned his PhD in Marine Sciences at McGill University in 1973.[2] In 1974, rather than continuing on with a postdoctoral position in marine ecology, Berkes worked with an anthropologist, Harvey Feit, studying Cree people's fishing.[3]

Berkes taught at Brock University, then became the Director of the NRI at the University of Manitoba in 1991.[1][4]

Awards

In 2014, Berkes won the Sustainability Science Award of the Ecological Society of America for his third (2012) edition of Sacred Ecology.[5]

He has also been awarded the International Union for Conservation of Nature CEESP Inaugural Award for Meritorious Research (2016) and the IASC Elinor Ostrom Award for Senior Scholar (2015).[4]

References
  1. "Dr. Fikret Berkes". University of Manitoba Natural Resources Institute Faculty. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  2. "eLIBRARY ID: 7086684". Elibrary. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  3. Berkes, Fikret (2012). Sacred Ecology (third ed.). Routledge.
  4. "Fikret Berkes, FRSC". Council of Canadian Academies. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  5. "The Ecological Society of America's History and Records". Ecological Society of America. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
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