The persistence of subsistence: qualitative social-ecological modeling of indigenous aquatic hunting and gathering in tropical Australia

Barber, Marcus; Jackson, Sue; Dambacher, Jeffrey M.; Finn, Marcus

doi:10.5751/es-07244-200160

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“…Despite the usefulness of qualitative models (Downing et al 2014, Barber et al 2015, Martone et al 2017, we are aware of their limitations; thus, the results we have presented should be read cautiously. Our qualitative model does not include stocks and flows, and the deriving dynamic consequences from the causal loop diagram discussed could give us misleading conclusions (Vennix 1996).…”

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Understanding the decline and resilience loss of a long-lived social-ecological system: insights from system dynamics

Tenza¹,

Legáz²,

Martínez-Fernández³

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Understanding the decline and resilience loss of a long-lived social-ecological system: insights from system dynamics

Tenza¹,

Legáz²,

Martínez-Fernández³

et al. 2017

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“…Harvesting practices facilitate the intergenerational transfer of ecological and cultural knowledge, and sustain the relationships, or kinship ties between people, their spiritual beliefs and their country (Rose 1996;Seton and Bradley 2004;Toussaint 2014;Barber et al 2015). The practice reinforces social norms and the institutions governing both access to and replenishment of resources (thus the close relationships between natural, human and social capitals).…”

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confidence: 96%

“…Before we didn't have, used to This is particularly important when many of the older respondents shared concerns regarding the challenges in teaching some of the younger generation. Barber et al (2015) modelled the negative feedback effect on harvesting motivation of community dysfunction arising from substance dependencies.…”

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Maintaining customary harvesting of freshwater resources: sustainable Indigenous livelihoods in the floodplains of northern Australia

Ligtermoet

2016

Rev Fish Biol Fisheries

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Freshwater resources underpin multiple livelihood systems around the world, particularly in highly productive tropical floodplain regions. Sustaining Indigenous people's access to freshwater resources for customary harvesting, while developing alternative livelihood strategies can be challenging. The sustainable livelihoods approach was applied to examine the ways in which multiple livelihoods in the East Alligator River floodplain region in northern Australia influence Aboriginal people's access to freshwater resources for customary harvesting. Interviews with Aboriginal residents were conducted to understand changes to freshwater customary harvesting practices. The dominant floodplain-based livelihoods analysed were pastoralism, biodiversity conservation and tourism and they were found to generate both opportunities and constraints for sustaining freshwater customary harvesting. Opportunities were provided through facilitating regular access to floodplain country and opportunistic access for harvesting, which assists in sustaining bio-cultural knowledge. Partnerships developed through these mainstream livelihoods built human capacity that enhanced all livelihood resource capitals (natural, human, social, financial and physical). Three key ways the dominant livelihoods constrained access to key freshwater resources were identified. Tourism required sacrificing certain hunting places and had to accommodate recreational fishing pressure. The successful recovery of the saltwater crocodile population through biodiversity conservation policy has inadvertently reduced people's customary access to in-stream resources. Pastoralism on the floodplain had restricted traditional floodplain burning practices associated with accessing aestivating long-necked turtles, affecting access and abundance. These findings highlight the need for the development of remote Indigenous livelihood strategies to make explicit their influences on freshwater customary harvesting practices, to better support their maintenance amongst multiple, noncustomary floodplain livelihoods.

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“…On the other hand, during a case study in Nepal, which included two workshops and a prolonged series of meetings, was realised that local communities easily lost their interest in participation over time. Qualitative social-ecological modelling was also applied to manage Indigenous aquatic hunting and gathering in tropical Australia (Barber et al, 2015). Two models including a short-term model (drivers of effort by active individuals) and a long-term model (persistence of subsistence at the community scale) were developed to predict how the systems might respond to potential perturbation.…”

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“…shown that social-ecological systems models have been supported to be an effective means in communication among societal actors (Delgado et al, 2009, Salerno et al, 2010, Franzén et al, 2011, Barber et al, 2015. The stakeholders played a critical role in participating in the modelling process.…”

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Participatory wetland conservation in Yok Don National Park, Vietnam

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Protected areas are the 'backbone' of conservation, essential to supporting a diverse, healthy and resilient environment. They also play an important role in contributing to the culture and livelihoods of Indigenous communities, often leading to conflict between conservation and the needs of local communities. Collaborative management has been found to be an effective strategy to decrease this.However, a lack of communication and shared understanding can be an impediment to developing co-management arrangements. I examined levels of natural resource use in Indigenous communities in Yok Don National Park, Vietnam. I identified the most important cultural keystone species and examined the effectiveness of using a conceptual social-ecological modelling approach to enhance Indigenous communities are elephants, cogon grass, Indian mulberry, turtles, snakes, lizards, fishes, frogs, crabs, shrimps, sweet leaf, rice paddy herb and sticky adenosma. The first four most important cultural keystone species were unpacked by multiple dimensions of relationship between these cultural keystone species and Indigenous communities. The results illustrate the complexity of cultural keystone species and how people value them differently. These differences were rooted in the attributes of those animals and plants and the way they are used by people. A conceptual socialecological systems model was developed in a workshop of community representatives and managers to gain an understanding of the social and environmental relationship between Indigenous communities and the protected area. The accuracy of this conceptual model was examined by developing individual conceptual social-ecological systems models for the most important cultural iii keystone species. After the workshop all participants from the communities reported an increased awareness of the importance of wetland resources and the need to maintain these, as well as a better understanding of the functions of important species in terms of their conservation. Managers reported their understanding of local people's desires to ensure local livelihoods through investment in cultivation, planting perennial plants and breeding some species around their villages. They saw a role for the park management through employing local people as guides and providing permission, funding, training and source animals for rearing and breeding instead of concentrating just on the management and conservation of the forest. All representatives from the Indigenous communities felt more comfortable initiating discussion with park managers, who had previously been reluctant to share their knowledge. Identifying potential areas where collaborative management might be improved will allow managers and local communities to move toward negotiations for more formal collaborative management agreements. iv Declaration by authorThis thesis is composed of my original work, and contains no material previously published or written by another person except where due reference has been made in the text. I have ...

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The persistence of subsistence: qualitative social-ecological modeling of indigenous aquatic hunting and gathering in tropical Australia

Cited by 23 publications

References 97 publications

Understanding the decline and resilience loss of a long-lived social-ecological system: insights from system dynamics

Understanding the decline and resilience loss of a long-lived social-ecological system: insights from system dynamics

Maintaining customary harvesting of freshwater resources: sustainable Indigenous livelihoods in the floodplains of northern Australia

Participatory wetland conservation in Yok Don National Park, Vietnam

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