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Addressing Indigenous Cultural Values in Water Allocation Planning

Water allocation processes across tropical Australia are struggling with the question of how to acknowledge and protect Aboriginal values and interests in water-dependent ecosystems. Indigenous interests in environmental flows research and water resource policy have tended to be neglected; consequently Aboriginal people have rarely participated equitably in water management decision-making. This project examined international sociological approaches to environmental flow assessment and water management (more)...

Integrated natural and cultural resources management options for pastoral lands in the East Kimberley

The research project highlights the challenges involved in promoting sustainable development on Indigenous-held pastoral properties in the East Kimberley. Cultural traditions and aspirations, conventional natural resource management (NRM) practices and institutional issues all need to be addressed simultaneously to improve management outcomes in northern Australia. Integrated planning options identified by the project will inform policy makers on indigenous (more)...

Scoping study: Aboriginal management and planning for country

The Ord-Bonaparte Program (OPB) of Land & Water Australia ran from 2002 to 2005. OBP Project 1 was about Planning for Country with Subprogram 5 about Aboriginal Planning and Management for Country. The initial activity of Subprogram 5 was a Scoping Study to identify areas for the development of research projects for implementation.

Scoping study report: Aboriginal management and planning for country

This report highlights that the Aboriginal cultural landscape of the Ord-Bonaparte region is complex and multi-layered. The historical, social, economic and environmental realities of Aboriginal people are accordingly diverse. Aboriginal people are still, statistically and in reality, experiencing extreme poverty, poor health and education levels, and their impacts. This is despite previous and ongoing regional development and planning activities aimed at better economic and social outcomes for the (more)...

An Agreement Approach that Recognises Customary Law in Water Management

The Anmatyerr water project worked from 2004-2008 as a collaborative team of Anmatyerr researchers, supervisors and participants and social and environmental scientists from universities and government. A number of projects were undertaken within this research initiative focussing on cultural water provisions in water allocation plans, equitable governance of water resources, culturally based livelihoods, training pathways, Indigenous water rights, and gender and water (more)...

Developing institutional arrangements of Indigenous participation in the National Water Initiative

This LWA funded project developed a research program for the Indigenous Water Policy Group to cover identified information gaps and key issues. The themes included: identification of Indigenous water rights; interactions between water markets and the customary sector; examination of international experience, frameworks and models; Indigenous economic position in water use and markets; representation on environmental bodies; communication; and scrutiny of water services, (more)...

Governance of water: an agreement model for customary law Governance

Aboriginal Law and culture in remote Australia remains active and strong. In this project, Professor Donna Craig and the Anmatyerr Water Team demonstrate a process for local active parties to take on management of places significant to them that improves cultural and natural heritage values and indigenous futures. There exist many places of significance to Aboriginal people that are not covered by formal management processes. In the NT this includes but is not (more)...

Kantri is for Laif

This report is the output of the LWA, NAILSMA and Tropical Savannas CRC project, A Strategy for the Promotion of Indigenous Knowledge and the Development of Indigenous Livelihoods on the Remote north Australian Indigenous Estate.