Integrating Aboriginal cultural values into water planning: a case study from New South Wales, Australia

A compendium of ecological knowledge for restoration of freshwater fishes in Australia

“…Dargin 1976), respect cultural values (e.g. Ginns 2012;Jackson et al 2014;Jackson and Moggridge 2019;Moggridge et al 2019) and provide a traditional ecological management viewpoint for restoration (Trueman 2012b;Pascoe 2017). This knowledge, along with other historical information (e.g.…”

Is investment in Indigenous land and sea management going to the right places to provide multiple co-benefits?

“…In Australia, Indigenous peoples engage in ILSM with multiple stakeholders (governments, scientists, producer groups, conservationists, philanthropists and others) through a range of mechanisms: formal government-supported natural resource management (NRM) projects (Roughley and Williams 2007); Indigenous and co-managed protected areas (Muller 2003;Ross et al 2009); endangered species initiatives (Nursey-Bray 2009); water planning processes (Jackson and Altman 2009;Hemming et al 2019;Jackson and Moggridge 2019;Jackson and Nias 2019;Moggridge, Betterridge, and Thompson 2019;Mooney and Cullen 2019;Poelina, Taylor, and Perdrisat 2019;Williams, Connolly, and Williams 2019); and the pursuit of cultural objectives conventionally undertaken in the absence of non-Indigenous actors (La Fontaine 2006). ILSM was first identified as an important area for investment by governments in the mid-1980s because it provided motivation for Indigenous peoples, and offered opportunities for work that extended into remote regions, where formal labour markets were often poorly developed or non-existent (Miller 1985;Rowse 2002;Johnston et al 2007).…”

“…While there has been considerable effort in reviewing and evaluating programmes designed to support ILSM goals and activities, there has been less focus on the geography of ILSM investment, and associated co-benefits, at broad temporal and spatial scales. A number of studies have investigated different aspects of Indigenous engagement in ILSM programmes in Australia, with many adopting a focus on the environmental and conservation benefits, for example: regional NRM processes (Inovact Consulting 2011); Regional Forest Agreements (Wilkinson 2017;Davey 2018); Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs) evaluation (Social Ventures Australia 2016a; Traill 2018); marine resource management (Gould and Ulamari 2017;Depczynski et al 2019); partnerships in protected area management (Bauman and Smyth 2007;Austin et al 2019); consultation in planning (Jackson, Porter, and Johnson 2017;Moggridge, Betterridge, and Thompson 2019); environmental management (Nursey-Bray, Wallis, and Rist 2009); community based environmental management (Wiseman and Bardsley 2016); and co-management of 'Country' (Zurba and Berkes 2014;Barber and Jackson 2017). Another area of focus has related to the use and sharing of Indigenous cultural and ecological knowledge (Hill et al 2013;Ens et al 2015;Pert et al 2015;McGinnis, Harvey, and Young 2020).…”

Indigenous Water Management

“…There have however been set backs to the Aboriginal water movement, as revealed by the article by Moggridge et al (2019) on developments in NSW. Moggridge et al (2019) highlight the effects of policy change and inconsistent funding on the efforts of Aboriginal people to contribute to an extremely complex policy area and to try to do so on their own terms.…”