​​​​Nancy J. Turner

Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge:

Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America.

2 volumes, 2014. Nancy J. Turner. McGill/Queen’s University Press.

 

Saanich Ethnobotany: Culturally Important Plants of the WSÁNEĆ People.

2012. Nancy Turner and Richard Hebda. Royal BC Museum, Victoria, BC.

 

Ethnobotany in British Columbia: Plants and People in a Changing World.

BC Studies 179 (Autumn 2013), Special Issue, co-edited with D. Lepofsky:

• “Introduction to Ethnobotany In British Columbia: Plants and People in a Changing World,” Lepofsky, D. & N.J. Turner.

• “Plant Management Systems Of British Columbia First Peoples,” Turner, N.J., D. Deur and D. Lepofsky.

• “Plants in Language and Classification Among BC First Nations,” Turner, N.J., C. Burton and J. van Eijk.

• “Ethnobotany in British Columbia: Plants and People in a Changing World.” Turner, N.J. & D. Lepofsky, editors.

• “Conclusions: the Future of Ethnobotany,” Turner, N.J. and D. Lepofsky.

 

Back to the Clam Gardens. Nancy J. Turner, Kim Recalma-Clutesi, and Doug Deur. Ecotrust Newsletter, Fall 2012.

Global Environmental Challenges to the Integrity of Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems. Turner, Nancy J., Mark Plotkin and Harriet Kuhnlein. (2013).pp. 23-38 (Chapter 3) in: Indigenous Peoples’ food systems & well-being: interventions & policies for healthy communities, eds. Harriet V. Kuhnlein, Bill Erasmus, Dina Spigelski and Barbara Burlingame http://bit.ly/cinefood

The Nuxalk Food and Nutrition Program for Health revisited. Turner, Nancy J., Wilfred R. Tallio, Sandy Burgess and Harriet V. Kuhnlein. (2013). pp. 177-190 (Chapter 3) in: Indigenous Peoples’ food systems & well-being: interventions & policies for healthy communities, eds. Harriet V. Kuhnlein, Bill Erasmus, Dina Spigelski and Barbara Burlingame  http://bit.ly/cinefood

Ecosystem Services and Beyond: Using Multiple Metaphors to Understand Human-Environment Relationships. 2013. Raymond, Christopher, Gerald Singh, Karina Benessaiah, Joanna Bernhardt, Jordan Levine, Harry Nelson, Nancy J. Turner, Bryan Norton, Jordan Tam, Kai M. A. Chan. Bioscience, 63(7), 536-546.

Blundering intruders: multi-scale impacts on Indigenous food systems. Turner, Nancy J., Fikret Berkes, Janet Stephenson and Jonathan Dick.  Human Ecology.  Published online, June 9, 2013; http://bit.ly/1iCL7jA

 

The nutrition of Lodgepole pine cambium (Pinus contorta Dougl. ex Loud. var. latifolia Engelm. ex S. Wats.): a springtime candy of people and animals in British Columbia. Dilbone, Megan, Nancy J. Turner, and Patrick von Aderkas. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 52 (2): 130-147. http://bit.ly/1sCBUfF

To Feed all the People”: Lucille Clifton’s Fall Feasts for the Gitga’at Community of Hartley Bay, British Columbia. Turner, Nancy J., Colleen Robinson, Gideon Robinson and Belle Eaton. pp. 324-363 in: Explorations in Ethnobiology: The Legacy of Amadeo Rea. Journal of Ethnobiology, special issue, edited by Marsha Quinlan and Dana Lepofsky. http://bit.ly/1qHFcfx

Sustained by First Nations: European Newcomers’ Use of Indigenous Plant Foods in Temperate North America.Turner, Nancy J. and Patrick von Aderkas. Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae 81(4): 295-315. http://bit.ly/sustainedbyfn

Conserving the World’s Last Great Forest Is Possible: Here’s How. Badiou, Pascal and 22 other authors, including N. Turner. (2013). A science/policy briefing note issued under the auspices of the International Boreal Conservation Science Panel and Associates.

Five Issues of Concern Regarding Mining in Canada’s Boreal Forest. A science and policy briefing note…Jacobs, John and 10 other authors, including N. Turner (2013). International Boreal Conservation Science Panel and Associates. March, 2013.
Being Gitka’a’ata: A Baseline Report on Gitka’a’ata Ways of Life, a Statement of Cultural Impacts Posed by the Northern Gateway Pipeline, and a Critique of the ENGP Assessment Regarding Cultural Impacts. Satterfield, Terre, Leslie Robinson, and Nancy Turner. (2011). Submission to the Joint Review Panel for Review of the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project, starting December 2011.
In Press

‘We might go back to this’; Drawing on the past to meet the future in northwestern North American Indigenous Communities.” Turner, Nancy J. and Pamela Spalding. 2013. Ecology and Society, special issue on “Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Resilience in the context of Global Environmental Change”, edited by Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Victoria Reyes-García, and Esteve Corbera.