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'Looking after country two-ways': Insights into Indigenous community-based conservation from the Southern Tanami

Date

Authors

Preuss, Karissa

Dixon, Madeline

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

This paper offers insights and practical lessons for a 'two-way' approach to combining Indigenous and non-Indigenous ecological knowledge in environmental planning and management. It is based on the experience of developing an Indigenous Protected Area to conserve 10 million hectares of biologically and culturally significant land in the Southern Tanami region of Central Australia.

Keywords

Keywords: community resource management; conservation management; environmental planning; indigenous knowledge; indigenous population; land management; protected area; Australia; Northern Territory; Tanami Desert Aboriginal land management; Environmental planning; Indigenous ecological knowledge (IEK); Indigenous Protected Areas; Natural and cultural resource management (NCRM); Warlpiri

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/67487

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Ecological Management and Restoration

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1111/j.1442-8903.2011.00631.x

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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01_Preuss_'Looking_after_country_2012.pdf (1.1 MB)

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