Kakadu National Park World Heritage Site: Deconstructing the Debate, 1997–2003

Aplin, Graeme

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8470.2004.00258.x

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“…Eagles et al 2002:10-12), is subtended by other big issues as well: mining, Aboriginal land rights and local versus national government control. These bigger issues have periodically captured national and international attention, much of it related to the park's inscription on the list of World Heritage properties-a factor that has made Kakadu all the more politically important (Aplin 2004;Trebeck 2007). Such issues have tended to crowd out consideration of the interplay between the interests of the traditional Aboriginal landowners and public use, notwithstanding the importance of such interplay to the Aborigines, as Palmer (2001) tells us.…”

Section: Brief History Of Kakadu National Parkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies: Historical and anthropological perspectives

Rowse¹

2010

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Section: Brief History Of Kakadu National Parkmentioning

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Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies: Historical and anthropological perspectives

Rowse¹

2010

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“…In practice, in recent times, Australia has followed the lead of the United States and shown itself to be especially lukewarm about such 'anti-growth' United Nations conventions as the Kyoto Protocol and the World Heritage Convention (Aplin, 2004). These include such agreements as the Convention on Biological Diversity (signed in December 1993), the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage and the Ramsar Convention (both signed in 1975), but there are also at least 55 others dealing specifically with environmental concerns.…”

Section: Alternative Futuresmentioning

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“…In theory, these conventions grant the Commonwealth government significant power over the States should they wish to invoke it, a 'stick' that was used, for example, against Tasmania in the famous High Court 'dam case'. In practice, in recent times, Australia has followed the lead of the United States and shown itself to be especially lukewarm about such 'anti-growth' United Nations conventions as the Kyoto Protocol and the World Heritage Convention (Aplin, 2004). By contrast, the WTO agenda and associated bilateral and multilateral trading agreements are accorded a much higher priority and tend to dominate government policy development.…”

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Ecologically Sustainable Development in a ‘Quarry’ Economy: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Mercer

Marden

2006

Geographical Research

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An overview is presented of recent work on the environmental changes impacting on Australia and the policy responses of the State and Commonwealth governments, especially over the last ten years. This period has seen a remarkably stable phase of conservative government administration in Canberra and consistent resistance to a strong environmental policy agenda, both domestically and internationally. Attention is focused particularly on rural and regional Australia, rather than on urban areas. The paper discusses the role of environmental issues in recent elections and also details the results of relevant opinion polls charting changes in environmental attitudes. The problems posed by the federal system of administration are outlined as are recent analyses and counter‐analyses of the state of the Australian environment. A more fundamental problem with liberal democracy and environmental values is also addressed.

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“…While the guidebook is so up to date that it even considers the issue of listening to dissident voices in communities-which in the real world are never truly homogeneous-it does not consider that, of course, Rio Tinto itself is also not a homogeneous entity, and there is certainly dissident behavior of partner mines. There are examples where the company operates in an exemplary manner, such as in Mongolia,3 and there are various cases where operations have raised questions, such as in Papua New Guinea (Taylor 2011), the Kakadu National Park in Australia (Aplin 2004), and recently the case of Apache Leap in the United States, in Arizona (Malakoff 2011).…”

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The Future of World Heritage and the Emergence of Transnational Heritage Regimes

Willems

2014

Heritage & Society

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The World Heritage Convention of UNESCO, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2012, was intended to promote the preservation and enjoyment of the world's most important natural and cultural heritage. It is now fast losing credibility because of political maneuvering and the inscription of sites that do not meet requirements for reasons of prestige and tourism development. This also threatens its role as an instrument to improve heritage management. That role is increasingly taken up by international corporations and banks, and globally we may well be seeing a shift from state-based frameworks that all go back to a "European" way of dealing with heritage, a regime, to a global and transnational heritage regime. At the same time, existing infrastructure and legislation in Western countries are under scrutiny as a result of financial crisis and economic recession, and, for developing countries, the wisdom of importing Western procedures and ethics is rightly being questioned. ResumenLa Convención del Patrimonio Mundial de la UNESCO, que celebra su cuadragésimo aniversario en 2012, tuvo como fin fomentar la conservación y el disfrute del patrimonio cultural y natural más importante del mundo. Actualmente dicha convención está perdiendo credibilidad rápidamente debido a maniobras políticas y a la inscripción de sitios que no reúnen los requisitos por cuestiones de prestigio y desarrollo del turismo. Esto también pone en riesgo su papel de instrumento para mejorar la gestión del patrimonio. Cada vez más las empresas y los bancos internacionales están asumiendo dicho papel, y a nivel mundial es posible que estemos frente a un cambio de estructuras basadas en el estado que regresan a una manera "europea" de ocuparse del patrimonio, un régimen, por un régimen del patrimonio transnacional y mundial. Al mismo tiempo la infraestructura

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Kakadu National Park World Heritage Site: Deconstructing the Debate, 1997–2003

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Cited by 26 publications

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Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies: Historical and anthropological perspectives

Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies: Historical and anthropological perspectives

Ecologically Sustainable Development in a ‘Quarry’ Economy: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

The Future of World Heritage and the Emergence of Transnational Heritage Regimes

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