Future sea changes: Indigenous women's preferences for adaptation to climate change on South Goulburn Island, Northern Territory (Australia)

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Traditional food availability and consumption in remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, Australia

“…In addition to contributing to improved health through dietary intake, the socio‐cultural contribution and opportunity for physical activity that traditional foods provide is important to recognise 21,32,33 . The impact that climate change, changes in the natural environment and development policies regarding land and sea use may have on traditional food use and thus health and wellbeing is critical to understand 12,32,34 . Although not designed to collect information on environmental and other impacts on traditional food, this study suggests that introduced animals are affecting the availability of small animal and plant foods, at least in the Top End of the NT.…”

“…It has been suggested that the use of traditional foods may be gaining interest nationally and internationally, and in addition to being good for human and environmental health, could provide economic and employment opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians 37 . There is a developing interest in sustainability of traditional foods in environmental protection efforts, 12 such as working with Aboriginal people to develop adaption strategies to mitigate the impact of climate change on the environment and traditional food supply 32,34 . Similarly, traditional food data are used internationally to maintain and improve availability and access to traditional foods as a result of global warming and environmental insults, such as contamination 17,18,21 …”

“…37 There is a developing interest in sustainability of traditional foods in environmental protection efforts, 12 such as working with Aboriginal people to develop adaption strategies to mitigate the impact of climate change on the environment and traditional food supply. 32,34 Similarly, traditional food data are used internationally to maintain and improve availability and access to traditional foods as a result of global warming and environmental insults, such as contamination. 17,18,21 There are three limitations related to our survey methodology.…”

Australian indigenous women’s seafood harvesting practices and prospects for integrating aquaculture

“…This research was part of a larger project that investigated Indigenous women's understanding of climate change in relation to its potential impacts on customary marine harvesting and their views on sea-based aquaculture as a potential adaptation strategy (Petheram et al, 2013(Petheram et al, , 2014. This paper focuses on the results relating to preferences for aquaculture development.…”

“What are you going to do, Protest the Wind?”: Community Perceptions of Emergent and Worsening Coastal Erosion from the Remote Bering Sea Community of St. Paul, Alaska

“…Most published studies that document adaptation efforts in the Arctic tend to focus on communities that are advanced or imminently threatened. It is also notable that many of these documented efforts lack traditional knowledge inclusion in a meaningful way, as similarly found in other adaptation efforts outside of the Arctic (Boillat and Berkes 2013;Petheram et al 2014;Carmichael et al 2017;Ali et al 2019;Mugambiwa and Rukema 2019). We posit that focusing on climate-related issues that are emergentnot just those that are long-standing or acute-provides a critical way to proactively address climate impacts before they become too extreme, unwieldy, or costly to sufficiently address.…”