ABSTRACT Cultural ecosystem services (ES) are particularly challenging to value as well as to sub... more ABSTRACT Cultural ecosystem services (ES) are particularly challenging to value as well as to subsequently incorporate in scientific assessments and environmental management actions and programmes. In this paper, we apply a cultural ES typology to an Australian water resources case at a location of major indigenous cultural significance, the Brewarrina Aboriginal fish traps, and consider the potential implications for water planning. Data from qualitative interviews with indigenous custodians demonstrates diverse cultural values and associated benefits with respect to the fish traps themselves and to their connectivity with another key water site, an upstream lagoon. Supported by additional analyses of water planning legislation, flow requirements, and non-indigenous tourist values, we analyse the applicability of the typology and the implications for water planning. Key issues include: the distinction between values and benefits; whose values and which cultural ES benefits are identified and managed; the challenges of categorising indigenous aspirations within cultural ES frameworks; and the implications for water planning of indigenous perspectives on connectivity. Case studies of culturally specific minorities are useful for testing cultural ES frameworks because they posit conceptual and categorisation challenges. In addition, ‘culture’ is often of strategic and symbolic value for such minorities, representing the key means by which they gain access to, and traction within, natural resource planning and prioritisation processes.
... In: Glenn P. Edwards and Kathy McConnell, Desert Knowledge CRC: Proceedings of the Desert Fir... more ... In: Glenn P. Edwards and Kathy McConnell, Desert Knowledge CRC: Proceedings of the Desert Fire Symposium. ... Editor(s), Glenn P. Edwards Kathy McConnell. Place published, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. Publisher, Desert Knowledge CRC. Publication date, 2009. ...
... be re-conceptualized as cultural, contested and dynamic. To conceive of thesespaces and place... more ... be re-conceptualized as cultural, contested and dynamic. To conceive of thesespaces and places in this way can facilitate open discussion and dialogue between land managers from the region. It is the first step in working ...
... am grateful to Sue Feary, Stefan Kaufman, Geraldine Teakle, Bronwyn Dixon, Yohan and Loki Thi... more ... am grateful to Sue Feary, Stefan Kaufman, Geraldine Teakle, Bronwyn Dixon, Yohan and Loki Thiruchelvam, Rachel Funari, Ha Tran, Rory Eames, David Eastburn, Peter Dean, Kylie Carmen-Brown, Karen Fisher, Paul Cheeseman, Clare Lawlor and Catherine Gross. ...
... In: Glenn P. Edwards and Kathy McConnell, Desert Knowledge CRC: Proceedings of the Desert Fir... more ... In: Glenn P. Edwards and Kathy McConnell, Desert Knowledge CRC: Proceedings of the Desert Fire Symposium. ... Editor(s), Glenn P. Edwards Kathy McConnell. Place published, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. Publisher, Desert Knowledge CRC. Publication date, 2009. ...
ABSTRACT Cultural ecosystem services (ES) are particularly challenging to value as well as to sub... more ABSTRACT Cultural ecosystem services (ES) are particularly challenging to value as well as to subsequently incorporate in scientific assessments and environmental management actions and programmes. In this paper, we apply a cultural ES typology to an Australian water resources case at a location of major indigenous cultural significance, the Brewarrina Aboriginal fish traps, and consider the potential implications for water planning. Data from qualitative interviews with indigenous custodians demonstrates diverse cultural values and associated benefits with respect to the fish traps themselves and to their connectivity with another key water site, an upstream lagoon. Supported by additional analyses of water planning legislation, flow requirements, and non-indigenous tourist values, we analyse the applicability of the typology and the implications for water planning. Key issues include: the distinction between values and benefits; whose values and which cultural ES benefits are identified and managed; the challenges of categorising indigenous aspirations within cultural ES frameworks; and the implications for water planning of indigenous perspectives on connectivity. Case studies of culturally specific minorities are useful for testing cultural ES frameworks because they posit conceptual and categorisation challenges. In addition, ‘culture’ is often of strategic and symbolic value for such minorities, representing the key means by which they gain access to, and traction within, natural resource planning and prioritisation processes.
... In: Glenn P. Edwards and Kathy McConnell, Desert Knowledge CRC: Proceedings of the Desert Fir... more ... In: Glenn P. Edwards and Kathy McConnell, Desert Knowledge CRC: Proceedings of the Desert Fire Symposium. ... Editor(s), Glenn P. Edwards Kathy McConnell. Place published, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. Publisher, Desert Knowledge CRC. Publication date, 2009. ...
... be re-conceptualized as cultural, contested and dynamic. To conceive of thesespaces and place... more ... be re-conceptualized as cultural, contested and dynamic. To conceive of thesespaces and places in this way can facilitate open discussion and dialogue between land managers from the region. It is the first step in working ...
... am grateful to Sue Feary, Stefan Kaufman, Geraldine Teakle, Bronwyn Dixon, Yohan and Loki Thi... more ... am grateful to Sue Feary, Stefan Kaufman, Geraldine Teakle, Bronwyn Dixon, Yohan and Loki Thiruchelvam, Rachel Funari, Ha Tran, Rory Eames, David Eastburn, Peter Dean, Kylie Carmen-Brown, Karen Fisher, Paul Cheeseman, Clare Lawlor and Catherine Gross. ...
... In: Glenn P. Edwards and Kathy McConnell, Desert Knowledge CRC: Proceedings of the Desert Fir... more ... In: Glenn P. Edwards and Kathy McConnell, Desert Knowledge CRC: Proceedings of the Desert Fire Symposium. ... Editor(s), Glenn P. Edwards Kathy McConnell. Place published, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. Publisher, Desert Knowledge CRC. Publication date, 2009. ...
One of the key determinants of success in managing natural resources is “institutional fit,” i.e.... more 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 importance. Responses to incursions are managed by a network of decision makers and managers acting at different spatial and temporal scales. We applied novel network theoretical methods to assess the propensity of growers, local industry, local state government, and state and national government head offices to foster either within- or across-scale coordination during the successful 2001 Australian response to the outbreak of the fungal pathogen black sigatoka (Mycosphaerella fijiensis). We also reconstructed the response network to proxy what that network would look like today under the Australian government’s revised response system. We illustrate a structural move in the plant biosecurity response system from one that was locally driven to the current top-down system, in which the national government leads coordination of a highly partitioned engagement process. For biological incursions that spread widely across regions, nationally rather than locally managed responses may improve coordination of diverse tasks. However, in dealing with such challenges of institutional fit, local engagement will always be critical in deploying flexible and adaptive local responses based on a national system. The methods we propose detect where and how network structures foster cross-scale interactions, which will contribute to stronger empirical studies of cross-scale environmental governance.
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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 importance. Responses to incursions are managed
by a network of decision makers and managers acting at different spatial and temporal scales. We applied novel network theoretical
methods to assess the propensity of growers, local industry, local state government, and state and national government head offices to
foster either within- or across-scale coordination during the successful 2001 Australian response to the outbreak of the fungal pathogen
black sigatoka (Mycosphaerella fijiensis). We also reconstructed the response network to proxy what that network would look like today
under the Australian government’s revised response system. We illustrate a structural move in the plant biosecurity response system
from one that was locally driven to the current top-down system, in which the national government leads coordination of a highly
partitioned engagement process. For biological incursions that spread widely across regions, nationally rather than locally managed
responses may improve coordination of diverse tasks. However, in dealing with such challenges of institutional fit, local engagement
will always be critical in deploying flexible and adaptive local responses based on a national system. The methods we propose detect
where and how network structures foster cross-scale interactions, which will contribute to stronger empirical studies of cross-scale
environmental governance.