Place-based planning in remote regions: Cape York Peninsula, Australia and Nunavut, Canada

Harwood, Sharon; Wensing, Ed; Ensign, Prescott C.

doi:10.4337/9781784711962.00013

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“…Despite an emphasis on evidence-informed policy and accountability [ 24 ], the basis for the selection of indicators by government to monitor improvements in Indigenous health and wellbeing and the local relevance of these indicators is not always clear [ 25 , 26 ]. A system-wide approach to identify indicators for transparent priority setting and engagement with Indigenous community stakeholders is also lacking [ 24 ].…”

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Identifying Environmental Determinants Relevant to Health and Wellbeing in Remote Australian Indigenous Communities: A Scoping Review of Grey Literature

Chakraborty

Daniel

Howard

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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The high prevalence of preventable infectious and chronic diseases in Australian Indigenous populations is a major public health concern. Existing research has rarely examined the role of built and socio-political environmental factors relating to remote Indigenous health and wellbeing. This research identified built and socio-political environmental indicators from publicly available grey literature documents locally-relevant to remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory (NT), Australia. Existing planning documents with evidence of community input were used to reduce the response burden on Indigenous communities. A scoping review of community-focused planning documents resulted in the identification of 1120 built and 2215 socio-political environmental indicators. Indicators were systematically classified using an Indigenous indicator classification system (IICS). Applying the IICS yielded indicators prominently featuring the “community infrastructure” domain within the built environment, and the “community capacity” domain within the socio-political environment. This research demonstrates the utility of utilizing existing planning documents and a culturally appropriate systematic classification system to consolidate environmental determinants that influence health and disease occurrence. The findings also support understanding of which features of community-level built and socio-political environments amenable to public health and social policy actions might be targeted to help reduce the prevalence of infectious and chronic diseases in Indigenous communities.

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Identifying Environmental Determinants Relevant to Health and Wellbeing in Remote Australian Indigenous Communities: A Scoping Review of Grey Literature

Chakraborty

Daniel

Howard

et al. 2021

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“…It is also important to note that there are many legal mechanisms that pursue nature conservation goals on certain lands, which are not included in the CAPAD database. For example, legal land use instruments are used to designate areas of environmental significance (Nelson, 2019) or conservation-oriented legal agreements between municipal councils and landowners (Harwood et al, 2016). These differ between states, are not aggregated in centralized databases even at the state level and lie outside the scope of the present analysis.…”

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Saving species beyond the protected area fence: Threats must be managed across multiple land tenure types to secure Australia's endangered species

Kearney

Carwardine

Reside

et al. 2022

Conservat Sci and Prac

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The main effort to secure threatened species globally is to set aside land and sea for their conservation via governance arrangements such as protected areas. But not even the biggest protected area estate will cover enough area to halt most species declines. Consequently, there is a need for assessments of how species habitats are distributed across the tenure landscape, to guide policy and conservation opportunities. Using Australia as a case study, we assess the relationship between land tenure coverage and the distributions of nationally listed threatened species. We discover that on average, nearly half (48%) of Australian threatened species' distributions occur on privately owned (freehold) lands, despite this tenure covering only 29% of the continent. In contrast, leasehold lands, which cover 38% of Australia, overlap with only 6% of species' distributions while protected area lands (which cover 20%) have an average of 35% of species' distributions. We found the majority (75%; n = 1199) of species occur across multiple land tenures, and those species that are confined to a single tenure were mostly on freehold lands (13%; n = 201) and protected areas (9%; n = 139). Our findings display the opportunity to reverse the current trend of species decline with increased coordination of threat management across land tenures.

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“…However, it turns out that the diversity of contexts (rural, peripheral, northern, remote, indigenous, temporary communities, etc.) calls for a variety of strategies that are community sensitive and adapted to each “place‐workforce‐workplace fit” (Carson, Wenghofer, et al, ), what is put forward in a “place‐based approach” (Harwood, Wensing, & Ensign, ; Vodden, Gibson, & Baldacchino, ). Hence, the roles of employment, team and work environment, social relationships, culture, climate, and other features of “place” in attracting migrants north (and keeping them there) are increasingly discussed (Carson, Rasmussen, Ensign, Huskey, & Taylor, ; Humphreys, Jones, & Jones, ; Simard, ; Taylor et al, ; Viscomi, Larkins, & Gupta, ).…”

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Choosing the northern periphery: Paradoxes in the ways of dwelling of new residents of Eastern Minganie (North Shore, Québec, Canada)

Guimond

Desmeules

2019

Population Space and Place

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Pulled by employment, Nordic exoticism, the desire to live "far" North or for other reasons, many Southerners choose to move to remote northern indigenous and nonindigenous communities in Québec (Canada). To better understand mobility and migration to northern peripheral regions, this article examines the paradoxical ways of dwelling of new residents who have settled in Eastern Minganie (North Shore, Québec), located about 1,300 km from Montreal, the province's metropolis. These migrants consist mainly of professionals in the fields of education, health, and social services. Research results point to four paradoxes related to mobility, remoteness, nordicity, rootedness, and otherness. They reveal both push and pull factors that nuance the idea of geographic remoteness as nothing more than a constraint on territorial development and local dynamism. Moreover, this article argues that mobility must be accepted, recognised, and even encouraged because, despite the paradoxes it raises, mobility remains essential to the vitality of Nordic peripheral areas.to re-examine the idea that remoteness is simply a constraint or limitation. Indeed, it is the paradoxes that have given form to the present article, exploring the roles played by mobility, proximity, nordicity, otherness, and rootedness in the migration experience of the neo-Mingan population. 2 | THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: WAYS OF DWELLING OF NEW RESIDENTS OF THE NORTHERN PERIPHERY Geographical remoteness and the mobility and migration it brings about are perforce behind the socioterritorial changes experienced by Nordic peripheral communities. Individuals and families leave, return, or stay for a variety of reasons: contractual obligations, changes in the seasons, territorial development policies, or socioeconomic conditions. From the regular or temporary mobility of fly-in/fly-out (FIFO) workers, to the more permanent migrations towards established communities, the arrival of neo-Northerners brings new dynamics in host communities. Due to their vulnerability caused among other things by their pressing needs in the areas of education, health, and social services, remote and Nordic populations invest considerable efforts to attract,

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Place-based planning in remote regions: Cape York Peninsula, Australia and Nunavut, Canada

Cited by 5 publications

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Identifying Environmental Determinants Relevant to Health and Wellbeing in Remote Australian Indigenous Communities: A Scoping Review of Grey Literature

Identifying Environmental Determinants Relevant to Health and Wellbeing in Remote Australian Indigenous Communities: A Scoping Review of Grey Literature

Saving species beyond the protected area fence: Threats must be managed across multiple land tenure types to secure Australia's endangered species

Choosing the northern periphery: Paradoxes in the ways of dwelling of new residents of Eastern Minganie (North Shore, Québec, Canada)

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