The use of replacement cost method to assess and manage the impacts of water resource development on Australian indigenous customary economies

Jackson, Sue; Finn, Marcus; Scheepers, Kelly

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.01.018

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“…One data set was a 12-month participatory resource use survey undertaken by one author in coastal Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, which was augmented by additional observations made over a subsequent 6-month period (Barber 2004(Barber , 2005(Barber , 2010. The second data set was a multiyear survey of aquatic subsistence in indigenous communities in two major Australian river catchments, the Daly River in the Northern Territory and the Fitzroy River in Western Australia, undertaken by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO; Jackson et al 2012aJackson et al , 2014. This survey was supported by an additional two years of data collected by an indigenous organization from the Mitchell River in North Queensland Jackson 2012, Jackson et al 2014).…”

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

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Jackson²,

Dambacher³

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ABSTRACT. Subsistence remains critical to indigenous people in settler-colonial states such as Australia, providing key foundations for indigenous identities and for wider state recognition. However, the drivers of contemporary subsistence are rarely fully articulated and analyzed in terms of likely changing conditions. Our interdisciplinary team combined past research experience gained from multiple sites with published literature to create two generalized qualitative models of the socio-cultural and environmental influences on indigenous aquatic subsistence in northern Australia. One model focused on the longer term (inter-year to generational) persistence of subsistence at the community scale, the other model on shorter term (day to season) drivers of effort by active individuals. The specification of driver definitions and relationships demonstrates the complexities of even generalized and materialist models of contemporary subsistence practices. The qualitative models were analyzed for emergent properties and for responses to plausible changes in key variables: access, habitat degradation, social security availability, and community dysfunction. Positive human community condition is shown to be critical to the long-term persistence of subsistence, but complex interactions of negative and positive drivers shape subsistence effort expended at the individual scale and within shorter time frames. Such models enable motivations, complexities, and the potential management and policy levers of significance to be identified, defined, causally related, and debated. The models can be used to augment future models of human-natural systems, be tested against case-specific field conditions and/or indigenous perspectives, and aid preliminary assessments of the effects on subsistence of changes in social and environmental conditions, including policy settings.

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

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Dambacher³

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“…For example, effort must be made to negotiate access rights in a fair and socio‐sensitive way (Jackson et al . ), to ensure that cultural protocols are followed (Higgins‐Desbiolles et al . ) and to safeguard against environmental damage, such as loss of key species.…”

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“…If sportfishing tourism is to succeed as a community development tool, effort must also be made to identify and mitigate its negative impacts. For example, effort must be made to negotiate access rights in a fair and socio-sensitive way (Jackson et al 2014), to ensure that cultural protocols are followed (Higgins-Desbiolles et al 2014) and to safeguard against environmental damage, such as loss of key species. If negative impacts cannot be entirely avoided, appropriate offsets must be negotiated, with the possibility to renegotiate in case of changed circumstances.…”

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Sportfisheries, conservation and sustainable livelihoods: a multidisciplinary guide to developing best practice

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Ecotourism ventures in developing countries are often among the few alternatives for enhancing sustainable livelihoods without altering traditional ways of life. The best way forward is to continually develop and implement best practice guidelines and, in particular, to flexibly develop them to suit individual cases. We conduct a multidisciplinary assessment of best practice guidelines required to develop and sustain sportfishing tourism in developing countries, while enhancing local livelihoods and promoting environmental stewardship. In general, best practice guidelines should be developed around a sustainable livelihood framework that includes short‐term coping mechanisms and longer‐term capacity building. Sportfishing development that conforms to ecological and socially orientated criteria, founded on site‐specific research that captures local environmental and social complexities, has the potential to provide mutual benefits to tourists and local people, fuelling community development and enhancing the cultural experience of tourists. Best practice guidelines for sportfishing that do not address these dimensions are unlikely to result in a viable industry. Given the current interest and growth of sportfishing in developing countries, the proposed guidelines can help a range of end users manage, conserve and maximize livelihood benefits from their fishery.

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“…This research programme developed in response to concerns from Aboriginal people about a lack of their engagement in local water planning and the potential impacts of government water‐use decisions on Aboriginal use and values of the Daly River (Jackson, 2004; 2006). The programme adopted a range of methods to reveal a fuller understanding of the social, cultural, and economic values Aboriginal people attribute to water resources in two northern Australian catchments (see Finn and Jackson, ; Maclean and Woodward, ; Woodward et al ., ; Jackson et al ., ). Specifically, this paper outlines how Aboriginal water values were positively engaged through the adoption of participatory action research (PAR) principles, approaches, and methods in one sub‐component of the research programme: the place‐based documentation of Ngan'gi eco‐hydrological knowledge and the collation and production of a detailed seasonal calendar that depicts 13 seasons recognised by the speakers of the Ngan'gi set of Aboriginal languages, known as Ngan'gikurrungurr and Ngen'giwumirri (Woodward et al ., ).…”

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Transforming cross‐cultural water research through trust, participation and place

Woodward

McTaggart²

2015

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Indigenous voices in government-led natural resource management planning processes are often marginalised, misinterpreted, or excluded. Third parties, including government-employed geographers, can act as knowledge brokers in defining Indigenous values and interests so they might be included in government planning processes. This paper reviews and assesses a research partnership that evolved to document the complex and diverse ecological and hydrological values held by Ngan'gi speakers about the Daly River and connected water places in the Northern Territory, Australia. The development of trust through the slow building of a relationship based on place-based dialogue, a key aspect of participatory action research (PAR), created the foundation from which a mutually beneficial and respectful research partnership was able to, and continues to, evolve. Both research partners' perspectives are revealed here to articulate why the research partnership was deemed a success. Key lessons learned from the research partnership include the importance of trust, respect for place-based learning, researcher and institutional flexibility, and awareness of the intricacies of relationship building and the benefits that research engagement can bring to Indigenous people and communities. We aim to further dialogue among geographers and interested disciplines as to the potential for PAR methods to foster mutually beneficial Indigenous-non-Indigenous research partnerships.

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The use of replacement cost method to assess and manage the impacts of water resource development on Australian indigenous customary economies

Cited by 61 publications

References 28 publications

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

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

Sportfisheries, conservation and sustainable livelihoods: a multidisciplinary guide to developing best practice

Transforming cross‐cultural water research through trust, participation and place

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