Sustainable Land Sector Development in Northern Australia: Indigenous rights, as

Description: Sustainable Land Sector Development in Northern Australia by Jeremy Russell-Smith, Glenn James, Howard Pedersen, Kamaljit K. Sangha 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. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 specialized disciplines like AnthropologyResponds to growing need for new approaches to managing human-ecological systems that are in greater sympathy with Australias natural environments/climate, and value the knowledge of Indigenous people Timely for scholarly and interest groups intervention, as the Australian government is again looking to develop the northSustainable 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 failed - and continue to fail - 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. Author Biography 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 childrens 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. Glenns 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. Table of Contents Preamble. Change and continuity: the North Australia cultural landscape. Northern Australian History — Dispossession, Colonisation and the Assertion of Indigenous Rights. Economic Development across the North: historical and current context of possible alternatives. Towards a sustainable diversified land sector economy for North Australia. Resilient communities and reliable prosperity. Like a Rusty Nail, You Can Never Hold Us Blackfellas Down; Cultural Resilience in the Southwest Gulf Of Carpentaria. Governing Northern Australian landscapes for a better future. Review The editors deserve our gratitude and congratulations on assembling an invaluable guide to what needs to change in the way North Australia is responded to. While this is an expensive volume, it will be an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to understand and engage with the debates about land, water, culture and resources across the region. The urgency of shifting dominant, business-as-usual approaches to national stewardship of this continent, and of integrating the best of Indigenous, cultural and scientific knowledges into considered decision-making, is difficult to overstate. There are terrific illustrations, really powerful, short and articulate boxed texts, excellent references and accessible presentation of data throughout the book. The volume brings together rigorous research from the humanities in Chapter 3 on the history of dispossession, colonisation and legislation across the North, and from the social sciences in Chapter 4 on economic development policies and programs. Chapter 5 on rethinking sustainable economic foundations across the North, Chapters 6 and 7 on community scale resilience and Chapter 8 on governance are deeply informed by, and engaged with, scientific research in collaboration with diverse Indigenous scientists, communities and values. For geographers, this volume is a terrific supplement to the emerging literature presenting new cultural geographies of the region. In those works, we are beginning to see geography marshalled not as a means of colonising places, but as a partner in treasuring, protecting and celebrating places and their connections across space and time. This is a very contemporary view of the challenges and opportunities of North Australia. There is none of the boosterism, racism and ignorance that has characterised so many discussions of the region. Instead, this deeply collaborative work presents the thoughtful and well-informed understanding and assessments of people who are deeply connected to the region. The principal audience for the book is probably more advanced than most classroom groups, but that should not deter teachers who will find the material offers an exciting integration of human and physical geographical perspectives and resources, and makes them accessible through good referencing with a lot of the material referred to being easily accessible online. The work presented in Sustainable land sector development in Northern Australia brings diverse and important resources into easy reach for classroom use, and offers a stark contrast to earlier generations of knowledge that demeaned, diminished and discredited the discipline of geography with huge consequences for North Australia and its wonderful places and diverse peoples. -- Richard Howitt, Emeritus Professor of Human Geography, Macquarie University, New South Wales, in Geographical Education, Vol 32 2019 Review Quote The editors deserve our gratitude and congratulations on assembling an invaluable guide to what needs to change in the way North Australia is responded to. While this is an expensive volume, it will be an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to understand and engage with the debates about land, water, culture and resources across the region. The urgency of shifting dominant, business-as-usual approaches to national stewardship of this continent, and of integrating the best of Indigenous, cultural and scientific knowledges into considered decision-making, is difficult to overstate. There are terrific illustrations, really powerful, short and articulate boxed texts, excellent references and accessible presentation of data throughout the book. The volume brings together rigorous research from the humanities in Chapter 3 on the history of dispossession, colonisation and legislation across the North, and from the social sciences in Chapter 4 on economic development policies and programs. Chapter 5 on rethinking sustainable economic foundations across the North, Chapters 6 and 7 on community scale resilience and Chapter 8 on governance are deeply informed by, and engaged with, scientific research in collaboration with diverse Indigenous scientists, communities and values. For geographers, this volume is a terrific supplement to the emerging literature presenting new cultural geographies of the region. In those works, we are beginning to see geography marshalled not as a means of colonising places, but as a partner in treasuring, protecting and celebrating places and their connections across space and time. This is a very contemporary view of the challenges and opportunities of North Australia. There is none of the boosterism, racism and ignorance that has characterised so many discussions of the region. Instead, this deeply collaborative work presents the thoughtful and well-informed understanding and assessments of people who are deeply connected to the region. The principal audience for the book is probably more advanced than most classroom groups, but that should not deter teachers who will find the material offers an exciting integration of human and physical geographical perspectives and resources, and makes them accessible through good referencing with a lot of the material referred to being easily accessible online. The work presented in Sustainable land sector development in Northern Australia brings diverse and important resources into easy reach for classroom use, and offers a stark contrast to earlier generations of knowledge that demeaned, diminished and discredited the discipline of geography with huge consequences for North Australia and its wonderful places and diverse peoples. -- Richard Howitt, Emeritus Professor of Human Geography, Macquarie University, New South Wales, in Geographical Education, Vol 32 2019 Details ISBN1138600202 Year 2018 ISBN-10 1138600202 ISBN-13 9781138600201 Format Hardcover Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint CRC Press Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Kamaljit K. Sangha DEWEY 338.994 Pages 226 Affiliation Darwin Centre for Bushfire Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia Language English Illustrations 12 Tables, black and white; 20 Illustrations, color; 38 Illustrations, black and white Author Kamaljit K. Sangha Subtitle Indigenous rights, aspirations, and cultural responsibilities AU Release Date 2018-08-22 NZ Release Date 2018-08-22 UK Release Date 2018-08-22 Publication Date 2018-08-22 Alternative 9780367571191 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:120004409;

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