Lost in the Wash: Predicting the Impact of Losing Aboriginal Coastal Sites in Australia

The Ethics of Cultural Heritage

“…While such studies have relevance to a consideration of impacts on cultural heritage, particularly intangible aspects such as traditional practices, there has as yet been little attention specifi cally focussed on the implications that such change may have on the range (both geographic and typological) of cultural heritage places in the world (although see Cassar 2005 ;Cassar and Pender 2005 ). In relation to impacts on society, the point has repeatedly been made that it is likely that people with the least capability to mitigate and adapt to future changes in the environment will suffer the most serious consequences (Green 2009 ;Altman and Jordan 2008 ;Macchi et al 2008 ;McIntyre-Tamwoy et al 2013 ;McIntyre-Tamwoy and Buhrich 2012b ). What does this mean in terms of cultural heritage?…”

Safeguarding our sacred islands: Traditional Owner-led Sea Country governance, planning and management in Australia

“…In the lived experience of Australian Traditional Owners, these vulnerabilities are enhanced, or potentially accelerated, where traditional languages, other place-specific knowledges and related usufructuary 2 rights (embedding customary and/or traditional use protocols) are destroyed, displaced, disrupted, discarded and/or disregarded through settler society establishment (Brigg and Graham 2020). Security of islands into the future depends on respectful human collaborations in finding shared ways forward given anthropogenic global warming and all that entails for islands, both globally and as named loci (McIntyre-Tamwoy and Buhrich 2012;UNCBD 2014).…”

Australasia

“…Research on impacts and adaptation in terrestrial and freshwater systems has been guided by the National Adaptation Research Plans (Hughes et al, 2010;Bates et al, 2011) and by research undertaken within the CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship. Climate change adaptation plans developed by many levels of government and Natural Resource Management (NRM) bodies, supported by substantial Australian government funding, have identified priorities that include identification and protection of climatic refugia (Davis et al, 2013;Reside et al, 2013); restoration of riparian zones to reduce stream temperatures (Davies, 2010;Jenkins et al, 2011); construction of levees to protect wetlands from saltwater intrusion (Jenkins et al, 2011); reduction of non-climatic threats such as invasive species to increase ecosystem resilience (Kingsford et al, 2009); ecologically appropriate fire regimes (Driscoll et al, 2010); restoration of environmental flows in major rivers (Kingsford and Watson, 2011;Pittock and Finlayson, 2011); protecting and restoring habitat connectivity in association with expansion of the protected area network (Dunlop and Brown, 2008;Mackey et al, 2008;Taylor and Philp, 2010;Prowse and Brook, 2011;Maggini et al, 2013); and active interventionist strategies such as assisted colonization to reduce probability of species extinctions (Burbidge et al, 2011;McIntyre, 2011) or restore ecosystem services (Lunt et al, 2013). Few specific measures have been implemented and thus their effectiveness cannot yet be assessed.…”