Patterns of Internet use for coastal management purposes were investigated for the period June/Ju... more Patterns of Internet use for coastal management purposes were investigated for the period June/July 2000. Results were obtained through paper-based and online questionnaires. A separate screening survey gave an indication of the likely demographics of the online questionnaire respondents. Eighty-seven responses were obtained from 21 countries, with the majority from the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom. The results suggest that online participants were most likely to be male, aged 25–39, live in the city, and be employed by the government at a State or Provincial level. The research questionnaire administered to around 200 people at a conference returned 99 responses, whilst the questionnaire available on the Web returned 66 responses. Coastal managers communicate online most frequently with practitioners from their own region. They are most likely to only access information from Web sites originating within their own region or from Web sites originating in North America.
Members of the Gulumoerrgin (Larrakia) language group, from the Darwin region in the Northern Ter... more Members of the Gulumoerrgin (Larrakia) language group, from the Darwin region in the Northern Territory, worked with CSIRO to create a calendar using their seasonal knowledge. The calendar was developed as part of the Tropical Rivers and Coastal Knowledge program.
Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science
Poor air quality is recognised as the most important environmental health issue of our time. Mete... more Poor air quality is recognised as the most important environmental health issue of our time. Meteorological variables like temperature and wind speed can strongly influence air quality and these variables often show clear annual cycles. It is therefore common to analyse atmospheric pollutants within a seasonal framework. However, the commonly used seasons in Australia do not align well with all of the most important annual weather patterns that influence air quality in the Sydney Basin. We used Indigenous perspectives on ‘seasons’ as identified by the co-authors and combined these with statistical analysis of the local climatology. This enabled us to create a set of locally informed ‘quasi-seasons’ that we named IKALC-seasons (Indigenous Knowledge Applied to Local Climatology). Engaging with the IKALC-seasons improved our understanding of temporal variability of air pollution in western Sydney, mainly due to a better identification of the time of year when cold, still weather condit...
Collaborative research in Indigenous geographies encompasses a wide range of approaches, practice... more Collaborative research in Indigenous geographies encompasses a wide range of approaches, practices and relationships in multiple contexts. Working collaboratively on creating and applying knowledges presents some very significant challenges-- conceptually, methodologically, logistically and organisationally. Cognisant of these challenges, and the opportunities that collaborative research brings, the Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG) Indigenous Peoples' Knowledges and Rights Study Group held a workshop, 'Giving back: collaborative research in Indigenous geographies'. The workshop was held at, and co-sponsored by, AIATSIS in Canberra as part of the lead-up to the 2015 IAG conference. The workshop was attended by 30 Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers. Impetus for the workshop came from Macquarie University researchers involved in an Australian Research Council Discovery Project, which has developed in collaboration with Aboriginal community researchers in thr...
1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Howard River catchment covers approximately 1,500 km2 in the rural Darwi... more 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Howard River catchment covers approximately 1,500 km2 in the rural Darwin region of the Northern Territory (NT). Over the past decade, increased demand from Darwin residents and residential and agricultural development in the rural ...
Knowledge co-production enabled via decolonised research approaches can support indigenous leader... more 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 to position themselves as research leaders, driving agendas and co-designing research approaches, activities, and outputs. This paper examines the role that positionality played in supporting an Indigenous-led research partnership, or knowledge-action system, that developed between indigenous, industry, and research project partners seeking to support development of the Indigenous-led bush products sector in northern Australia. Our chosen conceptualisation of positionality informs sustainability science as a way for scientists, practitioners, and research partners to consider the power that each project member brings to a project, and to make explicit the unique positioning of project members in how they influence project processes and the development of usable knowledge. We locate the research in northern Australia and then articulate how selected research methodologies supported the partnership that resulted in knowledge co-production. We then extend the literature on decolonising methodologies and positionality by illuminating how the positionality of each research partner, and the partnership itself, influenced the research and knowledge co-production processes. In culmination, we reveal how an interrogation of post-project benefits and legacies (e.g., usable knowledge) can enable a fuller understanding of the lasting success of the project and partnership, illustrated with examples of benefits derived by project partners since the project ended.
The development of an Australian Indigenous-led bush products sector presents opportunities for I... more 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 to 2018 to establish a better understanding of the benefits that could result from the development of this sector in northern Australia; identify the key challenges that need to be addressed to facilitate sector development; and identify possible solutions. Insights reveal that while there are significant, and potentially self-sustaining opportunities offered by the development of the sector, these are unlikely to be realised without appropriate actions to resolve knowledge and skills gaps and address significant social, cultural and legal challenges. We propose a conceptual framework for the appropriate, sustainable and self-sustaining growth of the sector and end with policy and research recommendations to support growth.
Chapter 3 discusses a wide range of considerations relating to the living component of the Mitche... more Chapter 3 discusses a wide range of considerations relating to the living component of the Mitchell catchment and the environments that support these components, the people who live in the catchment or have strong ties to it, the perspectives of investors, the existing transport, power and water infrastructure and the legal, policy and regulatory environment relating to the development of land and water. This chapter also examines the values, rights, interests, and development objectives of Indigenous people.
The internationally important river–floodplains of the Kakadu Region in northern Australia are at... more The internationally important river–floodplains of the Kakadu Region in northern Australia are at risk from invasive species and future sea-level rise–saltwater inundation (SLR–SWI), requiring assessments of multiple cumulative risks over different time frames. An integrated risk-assessment framework was developed to assess threats from feral animals and aquatic weeds at three SLR-scenario time frames (present-day, 2070 and 2100) to natural (magpie goose habitats), cultural (indigenous hunting–fishing sites) and economic (tourism revenue less invasive species control costs) values. Probability density functions (pdfs) were fitted to spatial data to characterise values and threats, and combined with Monte Carlo simulation and sensitivity analyses to account for uncertainties. All risks were integrated in a Bayesian belief network to undertake ‘what if’ management-scenario analyses, and incorporated known ecological interactions and uncertainties. Coastal landscapes and socio-ecologic...
Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing, 2004
Patterns of Internet use for coastal management purposes were investigated for the period June/Ju... more Patterns of Internet use for coastal management purposes were investigated for the period June/July 2000. Results were obtained through paper-based and online questionnaires. A separate screening survey gave an indication of the likely demographics of the online questionnaire respondents. Eighty-seven responses were obtained from 21 countries, with the majority from the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom. The results suggest that online participants were most likely to be male, aged 25–39, live in the city, and be employed by the government at a State or Provincial level. The research questionnaire administered to around 200 people at a conference returned 99 responses, whilst the questionnaire available on the Web returned 66 responses. Coastal managers communicate online most frequently with practitioners from their own region. They are most likely to only access information from Web sites originating within their own region or from Web sites originating in North America.
Patterns of Internet use for coastal management purposes were investigated for the period June/Ju... more Patterns of Internet use for coastal management purposes were investigated for the period June/July 2000. Results were obtained through paper-based and online questionnaires. A separate screening survey gave an indication of the likely demographics of the online questionnaire respondents. Eighty-seven responses were obtained from 21 countries, with the majority from the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom. The results suggest that online participants were most likely to be male, aged 25–39, live in the city, and be employed by the government at a State or Provincial level. The research questionnaire administered to around 200 people at a conference returned 99 responses, whilst the questionnaire available on the Web returned 66 responses. Coastal managers communicate online most frequently with practitioners from their own region. They are most likely to only access information from Web sites originating within their own region or from Web sites originating in North America.
Members of the Gulumoerrgin (Larrakia) language group, from the Darwin region in the Northern Ter... more Members of the Gulumoerrgin (Larrakia) language group, from the Darwin region in the Northern Territory, worked with CSIRO to create a calendar using their seasonal knowledge. The calendar was developed as part of the Tropical Rivers and Coastal Knowledge program.
Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science
Poor air quality is recognised as the most important environmental health issue of our time. Mete... more Poor air quality is recognised as the most important environmental health issue of our time. Meteorological variables like temperature and wind speed can strongly influence air quality and these variables often show clear annual cycles. It is therefore common to analyse atmospheric pollutants within a seasonal framework. However, the commonly used seasons in Australia do not align well with all of the most important annual weather patterns that influence air quality in the Sydney Basin. We used Indigenous perspectives on ‘seasons’ as identified by the co-authors and combined these with statistical analysis of the local climatology. This enabled us to create a set of locally informed ‘quasi-seasons’ that we named IKALC-seasons (Indigenous Knowledge Applied to Local Climatology). Engaging with the IKALC-seasons improved our understanding of temporal variability of air pollution in western Sydney, mainly due to a better identification of the time of year when cold, still weather condit...
Collaborative research in Indigenous geographies encompasses a wide range of approaches, practice... more Collaborative research in Indigenous geographies encompasses a wide range of approaches, practices and relationships in multiple contexts. Working collaboratively on creating and applying knowledges presents some very significant challenges-- conceptually, methodologically, logistically and organisationally. Cognisant of these challenges, and the opportunities that collaborative research brings, the Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG) Indigenous Peoples' Knowledges and Rights Study Group held a workshop, 'Giving back: collaborative research in Indigenous geographies'. The workshop was held at, and co-sponsored by, AIATSIS in Canberra as part of the lead-up to the 2015 IAG conference. The workshop was attended by 30 Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers. Impetus for the workshop came from Macquarie University researchers involved in an Australian Research Council Discovery Project, which has developed in collaboration with Aboriginal community researchers in thr...
1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Howard River catchment covers approximately 1,500 km2 in the rural Darwi... more 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Howard River catchment covers approximately 1,500 km2 in the rural Darwin region of the Northern Territory (NT). Over the past decade, increased demand from Darwin residents and residential and agricultural development in the rural ...
Knowledge co-production enabled via decolonised research approaches can support indigenous leader... more 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 to position themselves as research leaders, driving agendas and co-designing research approaches, activities, and outputs. This paper examines the role that positionality played in supporting an Indigenous-led research partnership, or knowledge-action system, that developed between indigenous, industry, and research project partners seeking to support development of the Indigenous-led bush products sector in northern Australia. Our chosen conceptualisation of positionality informs sustainability science as a way for scientists, practitioners, and research partners to consider the power that each project member brings to a project, and to make explicit the unique positioning of project members in how they influence project processes and the development of usable knowledge. We locate the research in northern Australia and then articulate how selected research methodologies supported the partnership that resulted in knowledge co-production. We then extend the literature on decolonising methodologies and positionality by illuminating how the positionality of each research partner, and the partnership itself, influenced the research and knowledge co-production processes. In culmination, we reveal how an interrogation of post-project benefits and legacies (e.g., usable knowledge) can enable a fuller understanding of the lasting success of the project and partnership, illustrated with examples of benefits derived by project partners since the project ended.
The development of an Australian Indigenous-led bush products sector presents opportunities for I... more 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 to 2018 to establish a better understanding of the benefits that could result from the development of this sector in northern Australia; identify the key challenges that need to be addressed to facilitate sector development; and identify possible solutions. Insights reveal that while there are significant, and potentially self-sustaining opportunities offered by the development of the sector, these are unlikely to be realised without appropriate actions to resolve knowledge and skills gaps and address significant social, cultural and legal challenges. We propose a conceptual framework for the appropriate, sustainable and self-sustaining growth of the sector and end with policy and research recommendations to support growth.
Chapter 3 discusses a wide range of considerations relating to the living component of the Mitche... more Chapter 3 discusses a wide range of considerations relating to the living component of the Mitchell catchment and the environments that support these components, the people who live in the catchment or have strong ties to it, the perspectives of investors, the existing transport, power and water infrastructure and the legal, policy and regulatory environment relating to the development of land and water. This chapter also examines the values, rights, interests, and development objectives of Indigenous people.
The internationally important river–floodplains of the Kakadu Region in northern Australia are at... more The internationally important river–floodplains of the Kakadu Region in northern Australia are at risk from invasive species and future sea-level rise–saltwater inundation (SLR–SWI), requiring assessments of multiple cumulative risks over different time frames. An integrated risk-assessment framework was developed to assess threats from feral animals and aquatic weeds at three SLR-scenario time frames (present-day, 2070 and 2100) to natural (magpie goose habitats), cultural (indigenous hunting–fishing sites) and economic (tourism revenue less invasive species control costs) values. Probability density functions (pdfs) were fitted to spatial data to characterise values and threats, and combined with Monte Carlo simulation and sensitivity analyses to account for uncertainties. All risks were integrated in a Bayesian belief network to undertake ‘what if’ management-scenario analyses, and incorporated known ecological interactions and uncertainties. Coastal landscapes and socio-ecologic...
Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing, 2004
Patterns of Internet use for coastal management purposes were investigated for the period June/Ju... more Patterns of Internet use for coastal management purposes were investigated for the period June/July 2000. Results were obtained through paper-based and online questionnaires. A separate screening survey gave an indication of the likely demographics of the online questionnaire respondents. Eighty-seven responses were obtained from 21 countries, with the majority from the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom. The results suggest that online participants were most likely to be male, aged 25–39, live in the city, and be employed by the government at a State or Provincial level. The research questionnaire administered to around 200 people at a conference returned 99 responses, whilst the questionnaire available on the Web returned 66 responses. Coastal managers communicate online most frequently with practitioners from their own region. They are most likely to only access information from Web sites originating within their own region or from Web sites originating in North America.
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