Fikret Berkes

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 Cree people's fishing. ^[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.

References

1. "Dr. Fikret Berkes". University of Manitoba Natural Resources Institute Faculty. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
2. "Fikret Berkes".
3. Gökhan Ak (2014). "Niyazi Berkes Yazını Üzerine Bir Bibliyografya Denemesi". Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi (in Turkish). 54 (2): 423.
4. "Dr. Fikret Berkes". Environment and ecology. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
5. "eLIBRARY ID: 7086684". Elibrary. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
6. Berkes, Fikret (2012). Sacred Ecology (third ed.). Routledge.
7. "Fikret Berkes, FRSC". Council of Canadian Academies. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
8. "The Ecological Society of America's History and Records". Ecological Society of America. Retrieved 23 January 2021.

External links

• Managing Small-scale Fisheries full-text
• Toward a new social contract full-text