The 5+3 agenda developed and utilised (2012-2017) by the Rainforest Aboriginal Peoples' Allia... more The 5+3 agenda developed and utilised (2012-2017) by the Rainforest Aboriginal Peoples' Alliance from the Wet Tropics biocultural region of Far North Queensland, Australia
Five values underpin the PhD candidate's Indigenous standpoint: relatedness to Country, cultu... more Five values underpin the PhD candidate's Indigenous standpoint: relatedness to Country, culture and kin; empowering Indigenous voices; reflexivity; relational accountability; and community benefit and deep understanding.
Five values underpin the PhD candidate's Indigenous standpoint: relatedness to Country, cultu... more Five values underpin the PhD candidate's Indigenous standpoint: relatedness to Country, culture and kin; empowering Indigenous voices; reflexivity; relational accountability; and community benefit and deep understanding.
It is essential to recognise that each of the study region's language, assemblies, clans and ... more It is essential to recognise that each of the study region's language, assemblies, clans and apical families separately speak for their locality, that is, their Country (Brigg & Graham, 2020; Pert et al., 2015; I. Watson, 2009). For this reason, it is necessary to recognise the individuality of the local TC groups, and how cultural knowledge and cultural authority is held at the extended apical ancestor family levels (Babidge, 2011; Pyke et al., 2018; Wet Tropics Management Authority, 2019), and is location-specific (O'Rourke & Memmott, 2005). It is also essential to recognise that there is a locality and membership hierarchy of groups within the region. This figure draws on Aboriginal philosophers West (1998), I. Watson (2009) and Graham (1999). The figure demonstrates the scales of cultural authority and cultural knowledge commencing at the locality-specific apical family level and progressing through clan to tribal to language nation group levels, the regional bio-cultura...
The 5+3 agenda developed and utilised (2012-2017) by the Rainforest Aboriginal Peoples' Allia... more The 5+3 agenda developed and utilised (2012-2017) by the Rainforest Aboriginal Peoples' Alliance from the Wet Tropics biocultural region of Far North Queensland, Australia
Map of the Wet Tropics biocultural region with Traditional Custodian groups. Developed 2017 and r... more Map of the Wet Tropics biocultural region with Traditional Custodian groups. Developed 2017 and refined by the Rainforest Aboriginal Peoples' Strategic Think Tank in 2020. Note: Current as at 30.06.2020, but subject to change to reflect spatial adjustments and cultural responsibilities as they become known.
This is a description of the Rainforest Aboriginal people of the Wet Tropics region, inclusive of... more This is a description of the Rainforest Aboriginal people of the Wet Tropics region, inclusive of the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area. It is under continuous review and development.
This is a description of the Rainforest Aboriginal people of the Wet Tropics region, inclusive of... more This is a description of the Rainforest Aboriginal people of the Wet Tropics region, inclusive of the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area. It is under continuous review and development.
The aim of this research is to identify how Traditional Owner groups in Queensland's Wet Trop... more The aim of this research is to identify how Traditional Owner groups in Queensland's Wet Tropics rainforests may capitalise on the tourism industry's willingness to incorporate Traditional Cultural Knowledge perspectives into tourism products by developing a framework or management model for using these products. This study focusses on sourcing Traditional Cultural Knowledge through secondary information allowing rainforest Aboriginal groups to collect this knowledge and to reimagine or recognate it into products thus capitalising on their cultural resources to benefit from the region's tourism industry.
ABSTRACT Cultural ecosystem services (CES) include the aesthetic, artistic, educational, spiritua... more ABSTRACT 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 has largely concentrated on more tangible aspects, such as tourism and recreation—presenting the risk that highly significant cultural relationships, such as those between Indigenous peoples and their traditional land, will be rendered invisible in ecosystem assessments. We present our results from co-research with a group of ‘Rainforest Aboriginal peoples’ from the Wet Tropics, Australia that illustrates a method to address this gap through mapping their perceptions of the health of Indigenous CES. We found that categories associated with biocultural diversity and governance matched their perceptions better than the usual framework that recognizes aesthetic, spiritual and other categories. Co-produced maps presented demonstrate spatial patterns of CES that are related primarily to variations in social attributes (such as adherence to cultural protocols), rather than the ecological attributes (such as biodiversity patterns). Further application of these concepts of biocultural diversity governance, and variation in social attributes when mapping CES, particularly in partnerships with Indigenous peoples is recommended.
The aim of the research reported in this paper is to identify a range of issues that relate to ho... more The aim of the research reported in this paper is to identify a range of issues that relate to how Indigenous Australian traditional custodial groups in Queensland's Wet Tropics rainforest region may capitalise on the tourism industry's willingness to benefit from incorporating Aboriginal knowledge into tourism products. The study suggests methods for sourcing local Indigenous cultural knowledge through secondary information to enable rainforest Aboriginal groups to utilise their publicly available cultural information as tourism products. This approach to utilising local cultural knowledge enables Indigenous traditional custodial groups to capitalise on their cultural resources and their formal native title recognition, and gain economic and other benefits from the region's tourism industry. This paper outlines the methodology and results to date from the first stage of a three-stage project to build a framework for incorporating cultural perspectives to promote traditi...
This technical report contributes to the December 2013 Milestone for the National Environmental R... more This technical report contributes to the December 2013 Milestone for the National Environmental Research Program (NERP) Tropical Ecosystem Hub (TEH) Project 12.1 Indigenous co-management and biodiversity protection. The overall goal of this co-research is to interrogate the capability of Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs) and other collaborative planning models and mechanisms to provide the means for effective engagement of Indigenous knowledge and comanagement for biodiversity and cultural protection in the region; and to provide for joint management of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area between governments and Rainforest Aboriginal people, in partnership with communities. Our definition of co-management as a continual solution-building process, not a fixed state, involving extensive talking, negotiating together and jointly learning so it gets better over time, underpins our derived framework of comanagement (see Fig 2). This framework, that includes thirteen separate but related ...
The 5+3 agenda developed and utilised (2012-2017) by the Rainforest Aboriginal Peoples' Allia... more The 5+3 agenda developed and utilised (2012-2017) by the Rainforest Aboriginal Peoples' Alliance from the Wet Tropics biocultural region of Far North Queensland, Australia
Five values underpin the PhD candidate's Indigenous standpoint: relatedness to Country, cultu... more Five values underpin the PhD candidate's Indigenous standpoint: relatedness to Country, culture and kin; empowering Indigenous voices; reflexivity; relational accountability; and community benefit and deep understanding.
Five values underpin the PhD candidate's Indigenous standpoint: relatedness to Country, cultu... more Five values underpin the PhD candidate's Indigenous standpoint: relatedness to Country, culture and kin; empowering Indigenous voices; reflexivity; relational accountability; and community benefit and deep understanding.
It is essential to recognise that each of the study region's language, assemblies, clans and ... more It is essential to recognise that each of the study region's language, assemblies, clans and apical families separately speak for their locality, that is, their Country (Brigg & Graham, 2020; Pert et al., 2015; I. Watson, 2009). For this reason, it is necessary to recognise the individuality of the local TC groups, and how cultural knowledge and cultural authority is held at the extended apical ancestor family levels (Babidge, 2011; Pyke et al., 2018; Wet Tropics Management Authority, 2019), and is location-specific (O'Rourke & Memmott, 2005). It is also essential to recognise that there is a locality and membership hierarchy of groups within the region. This figure draws on Aboriginal philosophers West (1998), I. Watson (2009) and Graham (1999). The figure demonstrates the scales of cultural authority and cultural knowledge commencing at the locality-specific apical family level and progressing through clan to tribal to language nation group levels, the regional bio-cultura...
The 5+3 agenda developed and utilised (2012-2017) by the Rainforest Aboriginal Peoples' Allia... more The 5+3 agenda developed and utilised (2012-2017) by the Rainforest Aboriginal Peoples' Alliance from the Wet Tropics biocultural region of Far North Queensland, Australia
Map of the Wet Tropics biocultural region with Traditional Custodian groups. Developed 2017 and r... more Map of the Wet Tropics biocultural region with Traditional Custodian groups. Developed 2017 and refined by the Rainforest Aboriginal Peoples' Strategic Think Tank in 2020. Note: Current as at 30.06.2020, but subject to change to reflect spatial adjustments and cultural responsibilities as they become known.
This is a description of the Rainforest Aboriginal people of the Wet Tropics region, inclusive of... more This is a description of the Rainforest Aboriginal people of the Wet Tropics region, inclusive of the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area. It is under continuous review and development.
This is a description of the Rainforest Aboriginal people of the Wet Tropics region, inclusive of... more This is a description of the Rainforest Aboriginal people of the Wet Tropics region, inclusive of the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area. It is under continuous review and development.
The aim of this research is to identify how Traditional Owner groups in Queensland's Wet Trop... more The aim of this research is to identify how Traditional Owner groups in Queensland's Wet Tropics rainforests may capitalise on the tourism industry's willingness to incorporate Traditional Cultural Knowledge perspectives into tourism products by developing a framework or management model for using these products. This study focusses on sourcing Traditional Cultural Knowledge through secondary information allowing rainforest Aboriginal groups to collect this knowledge and to reimagine or recognate it into products thus capitalising on their cultural resources to benefit from the region's tourism industry.
ABSTRACT Cultural ecosystem services (CES) include the aesthetic, artistic, educational, spiritua... more ABSTRACT 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 has largely concentrated on more tangible aspects, such as tourism and recreation—presenting the risk that highly significant cultural relationships, such as those between Indigenous peoples and their traditional land, will be rendered invisible in ecosystem assessments. We present our results from co-research with a group of ‘Rainforest Aboriginal peoples’ from the Wet Tropics, Australia that illustrates a method to address this gap through mapping their perceptions of the health of Indigenous CES. We found that categories associated with biocultural diversity and governance matched their perceptions better than the usual framework that recognizes aesthetic, spiritual and other categories. Co-produced maps presented demonstrate spatial patterns of CES that are related primarily to variations in social attributes (such as adherence to cultural protocols), rather than the ecological attributes (such as biodiversity patterns). Further application of these concepts of biocultural diversity governance, and variation in social attributes when mapping CES, particularly in partnerships with Indigenous peoples is recommended.
The aim of the research reported in this paper is to identify a range of issues that relate to ho... more The aim of the research reported in this paper is to identify a range of issues that relate to how Indigenous Australian traditional custodial groups in Queensland's Wet Tropics rainforest region may capitalise on the tourism industry's willingness to benefit from incorporating Aboriginal knowledge into tourism products. The study suggests methods for sourcing local Indigenous cultural knowledge through secondary information to enable rainforest Aboriginal groups to utilise their publicly available cultural information as tourism products. This approach to utilising local cultural knowledge enables Indigenous traditional custodial groups to capitalise on their cultural resources and their formal native title recognition, and gain economic and other benefits from the region's tourism industry. This paper outlines the methodology and results to date from the first stage of a three-stage project to build a framework for incorporating cultural perspectives to promote traditi...
This technical report contributes to the December 2013 Milestone for the National Environmental R... more This technical report contributes to the December 2013 Milestone for the National Environmental Research Program (NERP) Tropical Ecosystem Hub (TEH) Project 12.1 Indigenous co-management and biodiversity protection. The overall goal of this co-research is to interrogate the capability of Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs) and other collaborative planning models and mechanisms to provide the means for effective engagement of Indigenous knowledge and comanagement for biodiversity and cultural protection in the region; and to provide for joint management of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area between governments and Rainforest Aboriginal people, in partnership with communities. Our definition of co-management as a continual solution-building process, not a fixed state, involving extensive talking, negotiating together and jointly learning so it gets better over time, underpins our derived framework of comanagement (see Fig 2). This framework, that includes thirteen separate but related ...
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