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Russell‐Smith, Jeremy; Lucas, Diane; Gapindi, Minnie; Gunbunuka, Billy; Kapirigi, Nipper; Namingum, George; Lucas, Kate; Giuliani, Pina; Chaloupka, George

doi:10.1023/a:1021970021670

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“…However, the shift made in Australia, in which indigenous peoples and their knowledge have been incorporated into some fire management programs (Lewis 1989, Russell-Smith et al 1997, could serve as a model. According to Ray et al (2012:11), such a shift in fire management is not only a demonstration of good ethics, but it can "add finescale local details and historical context, detect changes yet undocumented in scientific studies, and indicate which regional studies apply to a given locale."…”

Section: Applying Traditional Phenological Knowledge (Tpk) For Adaptimentioning

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Opportunities to utilize traditional phenological knowledge to support adaptive management of social-ecological systems vulnerable to changes in climate and fire regimes

Armatas¹,

Venn²,

McBride³

et al. 2016

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ABSTRACT. The field of adaptive management has been embraced by researchers and managers in the United States as an approach to improve natural resource stewardship in the face of uncertainty and complex environmental problems. Integrating multiple knowledge sources and feedback mechanisms is an important step in this approach. Our objective is to contribute to the limited literature that describes the benefits of better integrating indigenous knowledge (IK) with other sources of knowledge in making adaptive-management decisions. Specifically, we advocate the integration of traditional phenological knowledge (TPK), a subset of IK, and highlight opportunities for this knowledge to support policy and practice of adaptive management with reference to policy and practice of adapting to uncharacteristic fire regimes and climate change in the western United States.

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Section: Applying Traditional Phenological Knowledge (Tpk) For Adaptimentioning

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Opportunities to utilize traditional phenological knowledge to support adaptive management of social-ecological systems vulnerable to changes in climate and fire regimes

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Venn²,

McBride³

et al. 2016

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“…Prior to more intensive pastoral settlement, Aboriginal people used fire intensively over large parts of the landscape (Fensham 1997;Vigilante 2001;Preece 2002), for a variety of reasons (Russell-Smith et al 1997;Bowman et al 2001) and in a different manner to pastoralists . Given that pastoralism and occupation by Aborigines have tended to be mutually exclusive activities in recent decades (e.g.…”

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Geographic patterns and correlates of the decline of granivorous birds in northern Australia

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A geographic index of the decline in the distribution and abundance of granivorous birds in tropical northern Australia shows that declines are greatest in Queensland and especially in the south-eastern tropics and in inland areas, and lowest in the north Kimberley and east Arnhem districts. In this paper, we use generalised linear models to investigate interrelationships among an index of decline in 1° by 1° cells and measures of grazing intensity and contemporary patterns of burning, together with the environmental variables of rainfall, vegetation and topographic patterning in the landscape. Grazing intensity was the single strongest human effect but strong correlations between grazing intensity and other human influences suggest that these may have been subsumed within the grazing intensity measure. Impacts of grazing may be worse where pastoral settlement occurred earlier. Topographic variation appeared to be a mitigating effect, suggesting a role for ‘topographic refuges’ from human activities. Relationships among granivore declines, grazing and rainfall are difficult to disentangle using inferential statistics, but a consistent effect is that declines are more severe in areas with greater year-to-year variation in rainfall. We do not suggest that our analyses are conclusive. However, they do support the proposition that better understanding of the causes of decline at finer spatial scales will emerge most strongly in studies that link habitat quality with granivore demography at inland sites of highly variable year-to-year rainfall and with strongly contrasting grazing histories.

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“…Griffiths, unpublished manuscript presented at the Third International Wildlife Management Congress, University of Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand). This incorporates: contemporary natural resource management activities (Phelan 2003, Walker 2010, Stacey et al 2013; customary activities with material effects such as burning regimes and water diversions (Altman 1983, Rose 1995, Russell-Smith et al 1997, Horstman and Wightman 2001, Laudine 2009, Gammage 2011, Barber and Jackson 2012; and customary activities that are influential on perceptions of health but without evident material effects such as conducting ceremonies and communicating with ancestral powers (Biernoff 1978, Keen 1994, Morphy 1995, Rose 2000. 11…”

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

Barber¹,

Jackson²,

Dambacher³

et al. 2015

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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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Cited by 174 publications

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Opportunities to utilize traditional phenological knowledge to support adaptive management of social-ecological systems vulnerable to changes in climate and fire regimes

Opportunities to utilize traditional phenological knowledge to support adaptive management of social-ecological systems vulnerable to changes in climate and fire regimes

Geographic patterns and correlates of the decline of granivorous birds in northern Australia

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

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