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Realizing positive social and environmental outcomes from assisted ecosystem adaptation requires the management of complex, uncertain, and ambiguous risks. Using assisted coral reef adaptation as a case study, this article presents a conceptual framework that defines social impacts as the physical and cognitive consequences for people of planned in...
Globally, Indigenous people seek to develop sustainable livelihood options that enable them to practice their culture, look after their traditional estates and generate economic development outcomes for their wider community. Enterprise development can and may provide one such pathway. However, challenges can arise with regard to reconciling the co...
The concept of resilience continues to attract much attention for policy, practitioners, government and researchers with regard to how to support individuals, communities, regions and even nations to respond positively to change events that affect relevant social-ecological systems. This chapter revisits work conducted by a team of Australian resea...
Indigenous cultural fire practitioners proactively revitalise their stewardship/custodianship of their traditional territories to generate diverse social, cultural, economic, self-determination, and ecological benefits. Government, researchers, and natural resource managers can overcome ongoing colonial legacies by enabling Indigenous leadership, p...
Knowledge co-production enabled via decolonised research approaches can support indigenous leaders to respond to the challenges and opportunities that result from their natural and cultural resource management obligations and strategies. For knowledge co-production to be realised, such research interactions must provide space for Indigenous peoples...
Risks posed by new species entering local environments have instigated Indigenous peoples’ efforts to develop new knowledge and land management strategies in many regions. Working to share responsibility for the management of these risks requires new information, prompting government agencies, Indigenous organisations, industry groups, and others t...
The development of an Australian Indigenous-led bush products sector presents opportunities for Indigenous Australians to create new livelihoods, and build on existing enterprises, based on their unique knowledge systems and long established socio-cultural and environmental management practices. This review draws on Australian literature from 2005...
Stakeholder participation is increasingly being embedded into decision-making processes from the local to the global scale. With limited resources to engage stakeholders, frameworks that allow decision-makers to make cost-effective choices are greatly needed. In this paper, we present a structured decision-making (SDM) framework that enables enviro...
Boundary work' is a relatively new and innovative qualitative approach in place-based research and often involves the creation of 'boundary objects'. Such objects can be created collaboratively with Indigenous communities, and can be used to communicate knowledge, values and aspirations across social and political boundaries. This article provides...
Biosecurity is often conceptualised and managed as an issue of biological risk. However, biosecurity policy and programs need to also manage for the social risks and impacts of biological invasions. This paper applies theory on the social aspects of social-ecological system resilience to understand how growers from the Queensland Banana industry in...
A discussion of social science and sustainability concepts, frameworks and methodologies.
Sustainability policies shape the ways that society and the economy interact with the environment, natural resources and ecosystems, and address issues such as water, energy and food security, and climate change. These policies are complex and are, at times, o...
Governance of risks to native flora and fauna and agriculture from disease and pests increasingly emphasises the importance of a ‘shared responsibility’ for biosecurity. Few studies, however, have examined factors that influence stakeholders' engagement with such risks and responsibilities, particularly in community, rather than agricultural, setti...
The logistical challenge of coordinating natural resource management actions across large scales is typically complicated by the diversity of stakeholders’ interests. Devising a plan is difficult. Getting diverse stakeholders to agree to and adhere to any logistical solution is harder still. Hence logistical solutions to large-scale problems involv...
Resilience thinking has developed separately in the bodies of literature on social-ecological systems, and that published principally within developmental psychology and mental health on the resilience of individuals. This paper explores what these bodies of literature might learn from the other towards a more integrated and enriched understanding...
This paper explores the generation of presences and absences of objects in plant biosecurity practices. We use praxiography to trace how multiple versions of disease were generated on a quarantined banana plantation during an emergency response to a suspected outbreak of feared Panama disease. Attending to the practices, techniques and materials th...
Landscape-scale approaches are emerging as central to ecosystem management and biodiversity conservation globally, triggering the requirement for collaboration between multiple actors and associated risks including knowledge asymmetries; institutional fragmentation; uncertainty; power imbalances; “invisible” slow-changing variables; and entrenched...
The concept of ''usable knowledge'' is central to sustainability science, but most of the research that explores this concept focuses on the science–policy interface. This paper expands this scholarship by describing a par-ticipatory research methodology that aimed to facilitate knowledge sharing between indigenous peoples, and support indigenous c...
The multi-dimensional relationships that Indigenous peoples have with water are only recently gaining recognition in water policy and management activities. Although Australian water policy stipulates that the native title interests of Indigenous peoples and their social, cultural and spiritual objectives be included in water plans, improved rates...
This desk top review and assessment contributes to Project 12.1 Indigenous co-management and biodiversity protection within the Tropical Ecosystems Hub (TEH) of Australia’s National Environmental Research Program (NERP). The review identifies five intersecting and overlapping pathways to co-management of country, including biodiversity and ecosyste...
One of the key determinants of success in managing natural resources is " institutional fit, " i.e., how well the suite of required actions collectively match the scale of the environmental problem. The effective management of pest and pathogen threats to plants is a natural resource problem of particular economic, social, and environmental importa...
Governments grapple with ways to integrate diverse values and interests to inform water management to
satisfy utilitarian needs and to maintain healthy ecological and cultural landscapes. Engagement with
Indigenous people has had limited success. In Australia, this is due to culturally inappropriate government-
led engagement approaches, a lack of...
The aim of this chapter is to address the second question of this research and to enable an exploration of the tensions that exist at the nexus between environmental governance and environmental management. This chapter (and the next) considers the role of community stakeholder groups and their knowledge in the networks surrounding environmental ma...
The aim of this chapter is to show how the first question of this research enables an exploration of the tensions that exist at the nexus between environmental governance and environmental management. This chapter (and the next) asks, how do knowledges of best practice environmental management move across and between international, national and loc...
The aim of this chapter is to locate this research within the contemporary field of environment and development and thus provide the basis for why there is a need for a new conceptual framework for cultural hybridity. First, it traces a trajectory through contemporary development theory and considering the role that community participation and loca...
This chapter first introduces the two case studies that are used as the lens through which to explore the themes of this book, and second, it practises the edge politics (after Howitt, Aust Geogr Stud 39(2):233–245, 2001a) advocated by this book to highlight the diversity of approaches advocated by a variety of land managers to engage with the biop...
The first question of this research is to enable an exploration of the tensions that exist at the nexus between environmental governance and environmental management. This chapter also considers how knowledges of best practice environmental management move across and between international, national and local scales of environmental governance and c...
The aim of this chapter is to further address the first question of this research to enable an exploration of the tensions that exist at the nexus between environmental governance and environmental management. This chapter also considers how knowledges of best practice environmental management move across and between international, national and loc...
This chapter practises the edge politics (after Howitt, Aust Geogr Stud 39:233–245, 2001a) advocated by this book to investigate whose notion of environment and whose notion of development are privileged in any given formalised political landscapes. This critique is important to working towards cultural hybridity as it opens up the spaces of exploi...
The aim of this chapter is to address the third question posed by this research (to enable an exploration of the tensions that exist at the nexus between environmental governance and environmental management). How can greater knowledge sharing between the many interest groups involved in environmental management and community development projects b...
The challenge of this book has been to engage with the metanarrative of ESD to consider theoretical and practical mechanisms to overcome the intra-generational inequalities inherent to this metanarrative, and resulting institutionalised practice. The aim of the book has been to consider ways to move beyond the dichotomies of exploitation inherent i...
The aim of this chapter is to introduce the four themes that are central to the applied peoples’ geography advocated in this book. This applied peoples’ geography, coupled with an edge politics (see Chaps. 4 and 5), is the basis of the new conceptual framework for cultural hybridity. This geography enables an investigation into the role of local, I...
This book highlights the importance of diversity in overcoming issues of social and environmental degradation. It presents conceptual and practical strategies to celebrate local and Indigenous knowledge for improved community development and environmental management. David Harvey has proclaimed, "The geography we make must be a peoples' geography."...
Cultural ecosystem services (CES) include the aesthetic, artistic, educational, spiritual and/or scientific values of ecosystems and have been described as ‘intangible’ and complex, reflecting diverse people-nature interactions that are embedded in dynamic linked social-ecological systems. CES have proved difficult to value, therefore mapping CES h...
Cultural ecosystem services (CES) include the aesthetic, artistic, educational, spiritual and/or scientific values of ecosystems and have been described as ‘intangible’ and complex, reflecting diverse people-nature interactions that are embedded in dynamic linked social-ecological systems. CES have proved difficult to value, therefore mapping CES h...
Participatory research methodologies that aim to incorporate other voices and knowledges in the generation of new knowledge (Maclean and Woodward 2013) can support sustainability and education for sustainable development. These methodologies, used in a variety of research traditions (including Education, Geography, Sociology), aim to create meaning...
This article analyzes the strategies used by the Girringun Aboriginal Corporation from
theWet Tropics, Australia, and the Innu Nation of Labrador, Canada, in their efforts
to participate in natural resource management within their traditional lands. Comparative
research highlights that both Aboriginal groups engage in strategies of consensus
buildi...
Many Indigenous communities in Australia are well situated to provide greenhouse gas abatement and carbon sequestration benefits, but little is known about the factors affecting the capability of Australia's Indigenous organisations to participate in climate change mitigation strategies. This paper provides a ‘snapshot’ summary of certain aspects o...
Scholars and environmental managers of complex social–ecological systems (SESs) have called for new institutional models to facilitate adaptive governance. This paper explores one adaptive governance approach as used by Girringun Aboriginal Corporation, an association of Australian Aboriginal groups in north-eastern Australia. Girringun uses this a...
The concept of resilience has attracted much attention in recent times. However, there remains a distinct knowledge gap with respect to the social aspects of resilience. This paper describes six attributes of social resilience identified through case study research. Research was undertaken by a multi-disciplinary team of researchers who worked in p...
Methodologies in human geography are rapidly evolving to include participatory approaches that incorporate other voices and knowledges. Central to these participatory methodologies is the co-evolution of research objectives, the co-production of knowledge, joint learning, and capacity building of all those involved. Visual methodologies that use th...
Our draft framework for Indigenous co-management in the Wet Tropics, derived through stakeholder input and problem co-framing, recognises it as an emergent path-generation process towards equitable relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous societies about country. Eight attributes are necessary to represent this process: focus on the part...
Rainforest Aboriginal peoples in the wet tropics region have promulgated advancements in
institutional capability to enable their engagement with biodiversity protection—for example,
through the Wet Tropics Regional Agreement, the Aboriginal Cultural and Natural Resource
Management Plan, several Indigenous Land Use Agreements (ILUAs), and the nomin...
Australian governments, Aboriginal groups and research communities call for the development of governance mechanisms to appropriately and effectively respond to the water interests of Aboriginal Australians from northern Australia. This research assesses planning mechanisms established to provide decision-support for Aboriginal participation in int...
This report addresses the two objectives of a participatory research project conducted in collaboration with the Bana Yaralji Bubu Inc., an incorporated body that represents the interests of a group of Kuku Nyungkal people (including a Kuku Yalanji man and a Kuku Bidiji woman) from the Wet Tropics region of far north Queensland, Australia. The rese...
interest as a foundation for Natural Resource Management (NRM), yet there is a distinct
knowledge gap when it comes to the social dimensions of resilience.
This research project focused on developing a regional level social resilience monitoring and
reporting framework. Research was undertaken by a team of University of Queensland
researchers, work...
Desert landscapes of central Australia have inspired various narratives for nation building. These narratives, based upon
discourses of land as a commodity for the colonial project, include the inferior peripheral wastelands of the colonial centre;
the wild and pristine haven of ‘noble aborigines’; and the frontier home of heroic explorers and past...
Over the past 40 years there has been widespread and ongoing international interest in reporting the social outcomes of development. A range of approaches have been developed emanating from diverse disciplinary perspectives to serve a varied range of operational purposes. Research reported in this paper builds from a systematic review of literature...
