Fikret Berkes
Canadian ecologist
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Fikret Berkes (born 1945) is a Turkish-Canadian ecologist. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba's Natural Resources Institute.[1][2] Berkes studies community-based natural resources management in societies around the world.
Early life and education
Berkes was born in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1945. His parents are Niyazi Berkes and Mediha Esenel.[3] He received his Bachelor of Science degree from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in 1968.[4] He obtained a Ph.D. in marine sciences from the same university in 1973.[4][5]
Career
In 1974, rather than continuing on with a postdoctoral position in marine ecology, Berkes worked with an anthropologist, Harvey Feit, studying the fishing practices of the Cree.[6]
Berkes taught at Brock University, then became the Director of the NRI at the University of Manitoba in 1991.[1][7]
Awards
In 2014, Berkes won the Sustainability Science Award of the Ecological Society of America for his third (2012) edition of Sacred Ecology.[8]
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).[7]
Selected publications
- Berkes, F. (2017). Sacred Ecology (4th ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315114644
- Berkes, F., Colding, J., & Folke, C. (Eds.). (2008). Navigating social-ecological systems: building resilience for complexity and change. Cambridge University Press.
- Berkes, F., Colding, J., & Folke, C. (2000). Rediscovery of traditional ecological knowledge as adaptive management. Ecological applications, 10(5), 1251-1262.
- Berkes, F., Folke, C., & Colding, J. (Eds.). (2000). Linking social and ecological systems: management practices and social mechanisms for building resilience. Cambridge University Press.