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Biodiversity Is A Whitefella Word: Changing Relationships Between Aboriginal People And The Nsw National Parks And Wildlife Service, Michael Adams, Anthony English
Biodiversity Is A Whitefella Word: Changing Relationships Between Aboriginal People And The Nsw National Parks And Wildlife Service, Michael Adams, Anthony English
Michael Adams
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Local Engagements With Urban Bushland: Moving Beyond Bounded Practice For Urban Biodiversity Management, Nicholas J. Gill, Gordon R. Waitt, Lesley M. Head
Local Engagements With Urban Bushland: Moving Beyond Bounded Practice For Urban Biodiversity Management, Nicholas J. Gill, Gordon R. Waitt, Lesley M. Head
Nicholas J Gill
Management of ecologically significant urban green space is likely to be increasingly governed by biodiversity policy frameworks. These frameworks tend to reproduce bounded thinking and strategies that separate green space from its context and characterise people as a disturbance. Like many green spaces these ecologically significant areas are highly valued by visitors and nearby residents. Green space is important for engagement with nature, social interaction, and for respite from daily life: it is strongly connected to surrounding areas and to the lives of people who live there. The dissonance between bounded management thinking and the role of green space in …