Indigenous Environmental Science and Practice, BIESP
The Indigenous Environmental Science and Practice (BIESP) program examines environmental science through a lens of Indigenous knowledge systems, methodologies, priorities, and values. The degree seeks to actualize reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples of Canada and promote sustainable relationships with the environment. Indigenous and non-Indigenous graduates of the program will be equipped to support the environmental science needs and goals of Indigenous communities and partners. This degree explicitly recognizes the inherent validity and value of Indigenous ways of knowing and being and seeks to effectively and consensually engage and apply Indigenous methodologies, values and knowledge to the challenge of sustainable and ethical environmental science and practice. The IESP program will enable students to develop a foundational knowledge of theoretical and applied aspects of environmental science, technology, management, land-use and policy development practices grounded in Indigenous pedagogy.