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Bush Lemons And Beach Hauling: Evolving Traditions And New Thinking For Protected Areas Management And Aboriginal People In New South Wales, Michael Adams, Vanessa Cavanagh, Bridget Edmunds
Bush Lemons And Beach Hauling: Evolving Traditions And New Thinking For Protected Areas Management And Aboriginal People In New South Wales, Michael Adams, Vanessa Cavanagh, Bridget Edmunds
Vanessa Cavanagh
Aboriginal communities in New South Wales currently are engaged in negotiating with government agencies
about cultural activities focussing on access to and harvest of wild resources on and off protected areas. These
are ‘co-management’ situations in the broadest sense, where both Indigenous peoples and protected area
management agencies actively are engaged in the same landscape. Aboriginal peoples are using adaptive
approaches to continue millennia of cultural traditions in social and physical environments that are
significantly changed and changing. Some protected area managers are seeking to understand and adapt
agency responses, so as to engage and support Aboriginal interests. These contrasting …