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Sustainable Land Sector Development in Northern Australia

Indigenous rights, aspirations, and cultural responsibilities
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Sustainable Land Sector Development in Northern Australia presents a visionary approach to developing Northern Australia that honours Indigenous cultural responsibilities while promoting ecological sustainability. The book offers expert guidance on fire management within ecological and social contexts and elucidates Indigenous knowledge systems rarely accessible outside specialist fields. It addresses the urgent need for human-ecological systems management that aligns with Australia's unique environments and climate, valuing Indigenous expertise as central to a diversified ecosystem services economy.
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This book is ideal for scholars, policymakers, Indigenous community leaders, and environmentally-conscious readers interested in sustainable land management, Indigenous knowledge, and ecological development in the Australian context.

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This book sets out a vision for developing North Australia based on a culturally appropriate and ecologically sustainable land sector economy, supporting both Indigenous responsibilities and community aspirations, as well as enhancing enterprise opportunities for society as a whole.

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Key Features:

Provides clear and authoritative recommendations for managing fire in ecological and social contexts.

Authors are all international leaders in their fields and include not only academics but also leaders of Indigenous communities.

Explains Indigenous cultural and knowledge systems to a degree that has rarely been accessible to lay and academic readers outside specialised disciplines like Anthropology.

Responds to the growing need for new approaches to managing human-ecological systems that are in greater sympathy with Australiaโ€™s natural environments and climate, and value the knowledge of Indigenous people.

Timely for scholarly and interest group intervention, as the Australian government is again looking to โ€˜develop the northโ€™.

Sustainable Land Sector Development in Northern Australia sets out a vision for developing North Australia based on a culturally appropriate and ecologically sustainable land sector economy. This vision supports both Indigenous cultural responsibilities and aspirations, as well as enhancing enterprise opportunities for society as a whole. In the past, well-meaning if often misguided policy agendas have failedโ€”and continue to failโ€”North Australians. This book helps breach that gap by acknowledging and harnessing Indigenous cultural strengths and knowledge systems for looking after the country and its people, as part of a smart, novel, and diversified ecosystem services economy.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367571191

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 June 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: CRC Press

Contributors:

  • Edited by Jeremy Russell-Smith
  • Edited by Glenn James
  • Edited by Howard Pedersen
  • Edited by Kamaljit K. Sangha

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 450g

Pages: 244

About the Author

Jeremy Russell-Smith is an ecologist who, since the early 1980s, has worked and published extensively on fire ecology, carbon market, and Indigenous land management issues in northern Australia, and related issues elsewhere in the tropics. He is the Professor of tropical fire ecology and management at Charles Darwin University, Darwin, where he leads the applied research program of the Darwin Centre for Bushfire Research.

Howard Pedersen has been working with Indigenous leaders in northern Australia as policy advisor and speechwriter since the early 1980s. He has worked in government and Aboriginal organisations and his professional experience spans the breadth of the big picture policy issues which have shaped northern Australian development including land rights and native title, economic empowerment and cultural protection and renewal. In 1995 his award winning book, Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance, written in collaboration with story teller Banjo Wurunmurra, was released and subsequently promoted through childrenโ€™s books, an award winning TV drama/documentary and theatre productions. Howard currently works as policy advisor to the Yawuru native title holders in Broome.

Glenn James is the Program and Policy Manager with the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance Ltd in Darwin. He has lived in remote Central and North Australia for almost 30 years. Over this period his work has spanned a number of interrelated areas including Indigenous community arts, Anthropology and land management enterprise; in recent years focussing on tools to identify and track the health of local Indigenous values as they transition to land management based enterprise. Glennโ€™s formal education in Political Science, Philosophy and Anthropology, combined with his equally formative lived experience in remote communities and many personal and professional relationships in remote Australia, informs his long term support for the aspirations and achievements of Indigenous people.

Kamaljit Sangha works as an ecological economist at the Darwin Centre for Bushfire Research at Charles Darwin University. Currently she is involved in developing mechanisms for Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), highlighting the role of natural systems for human wellbeing especially in Indigenous and local communities, and valuing ecosystems for their services (ES) to inform policy decision making.

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