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Bush Lemons And Beach Hauling: Evolving Traditions And New Thinking For Protected Areas Management And Aboriginal Peoples In New South Wales, Michael Adams, Vanessa Cavanagh, Bridget Edmunds Oct 2012

Bush Lemons And Beach Hauling: Evolving Traditions And New Thinking For Protected Areas Management And Aboriginal Peoples In New South Wales, Michael Adams, Vanessa Cavanagh, Bridget Edmunds

Michael Adams

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 …


Arctic To Outback: Indigenous Rights, Conservation And Tourism, Michael Adams Jun 2012

Arctic To Outback: Indigenous Rights, Conservation And Tourism, Michael Adams

Michael Adams

Internationally, there has been significant growth in conservation landscapes as a land tenure, since the specific creation of the concept of a “national park” at Yellowstone, USA, in 1872. “Protected areas”, as an umbrella designation for national parks, nature reserves and other forms of conservation landscape, now occupy nearly 13% of the world’s terrestrial area (Chape, Spalding and Jenkins 2008). The early North American, Australian and many other national park systems, while focusing on conservation, explicitly embraced tourism (Boyd and Butler, 2000). However, in the decades since World War II, recreational use of national parks has increased enormously, creating entire …


Negotiating Nature: Collaboration And Conflict Between Aboriginal And Conservation Interests In New South Wales, Australia, Michael Adams Jun 2012

Negotiating Nature: Collaboration And Conflict Between Aboriginal And Conservation Interests In New South Wales, Australia, Michael Adams

Michael Adams

Faced with the paradox of a large global increase in conservation reserves and a simultaneous global decrease in actual effective protection for biodiversity, conservation scientists and policymakers are questioning established conservation theory and practice. I argue that the fundamental premises, the foundational myths, for Western-style conservation also need to be questioned. The statistics on Indigenous land claims, and conservation reserves, in Australia and more specifically the state of New South Wales (NSW), reveal a landscape of policy failure in both arenas. Focusing on Australia, I use spatial analysis and policy histories to demonstrate converging trajectories of land use priorities for …


Response To Peter Thompson Interview, From Michael Adams, Michael J. Adams Jun 2012

Response To Peter Thompson Interview, From Michael Adams, Michael J. Adams

Michael Adams

No abstract provided.


Indigenous Environmental Knowledge, Christine Eriksen, Michael J. Adams Jun 2012

Indigenous Environmental Knowledge, Christine Eriksen, Michael J. Adams

Michael Adams

No abstract provided.


First Nations And The Politics Of Indigeneity: Australian Perspectives On Indigenous Peoples, Resource Management And Global Rights, R. Lawrence, Michael Adams Jun 2012

First Nations And The Politics Of Indigeneity: Australian Perspectives On Indigenous Peoples, Resource Management And Global Rights, R. Lawrence, Michael Adams

Michael Adams

No abstract provided.


Biodiversity Is A Whitefella Word: Changing Relationships Between Aboriginal People And The Nsw National Parks And Wildlife Service, Michael Adams, Anthony English Jun 2012

Biodiversity Is A Whitefella Word: Changing Relationships Between Aboriginal People And The Nsw National Parks And Wildlife Service, Michael Adams, Anthony English

Michael Adams

No abstract provided.


Beyond Yellowstone? Conservation And Indigenous Rights In Australia And Sweden, Michael Adams Jun 2012

Beyond Yellowstone? Conservation And Indigenous Rights In Australia And Sweden, Michael Adams

Michael Adams

Faced with the paradox of a large global increase in conservation reserves and a simultaneous global decrease in actual effective protection for biodiversity, conservation scientists and others are questioning established conservation theory and practice. Conservation is largely a ‘residual’ landuse, which often conflicts with another residual landuse, the remaining lands owned or accessed by Indigenous peoples. I argue that the Western conservation model has created this situation, and that engaging with Indigenous ways of relating to ‘nature’ could lead to improved outcomes. From the basis that environmental problems are fundamentally social problems, and using case studies from Australia and Sweden, …


Bush Lemons And Beach Hauling: Evolving Traditions And New Thinking For Protected Areas Management And Aboriginal Peoples In New South Wales, Michael Adams, Vanessa Cavanagh, Bridget Edmunds Jun 2012

Bush Lemons And Beach Hauling: Evolving Traditions And New Thinking For Protected Areas Management And Aboriginal Peoples In New South Wales, Michael Adams, Vanessa Cavanagh, Bridget Edmunds

Michael Adams

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 …


Foundational Myths: Country And Conservation In Australia, Michael Adams Jun 2012

Foundational Myths: Country And Conservation In Australia, Michael Adams

Michael Adams

In Australia, while each state has responsibility for the creation and management of their own national park systems, overall coordination is achieved through the Commonwealth National Reserve System. The Australian systems, like many others, are essentially based on the ‘Yellowstone model’ of protected areas: government owned and managed, precise boundaries, and with people present only as visitors or rangers (Stevens 1997). The Yellowstone model had its origins in wilderness protection, and despite many changes, wilderness persists as a foundational concept for Australian national parks.


Indigenous -Government Co-Management Of Protected Areas: Booderee National Park And The National Framework In Australia, David Farrier, Michael Adams Jun 2012

Indigenous -Government Co-Management Of Protected Areas: Booderee National Park And The National Framework In Australia, David Farrier, Michael Adams

Michael Adams

This case study first describes and assesses co-management governance arrangements for Booderee National Park on the south-east coast of Australia. It then goes on to set this examination in the broader context of a range of other types of protected area co-management governance arrangements in the country. Co-management of Booderee National Park raises and reflects issues from the ongoing development of co-managed protected areas in Australia. The co-management arrangements for Booderee exempt Aboriginal management and use from a range of regulatory provisions, but this is not considered to pose any threats to the successful maintenance of biodiversity. The arrangements also …