Back to Search
Start Over
Putting uncertainty under the cultural lens of Traditional Owners from the Great Barrier Reef Catchments
- Source :
- Regional Environmental Change. 19:1597-1610
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019.
-
Abstract
- Indigenous peoples in Australia, and globally, are situated in an unusual context of both significant vulnerability and unique resilience to climate change which influence their perceptions of climate risk and uncertainty. Their vulnerability to climate change arises in part from their contexts of living in many of the harshest and isolated environments. Their resilience originates from their accumulated knowledge of specific environments over millennia, mediated through sui generis cultural institutions. Our results illustrate that indigenous groups primarily perceive uncertainties related to volition of actors and institutions. When they are involved in climate adaptation planning in ways that mobilise their cultural institutions and knowledge, they can safely manage these uncertainties through their agency to determine and control key risks. We demonstrate that climate justice approaches can be strengthened for indigenous peoples by applying a linked vulnerability-resilience analytical framework. This enables stronger consideration of how unique cultural institutions and knowledge, which are not available to all vulnerable groups, affect indigenous perceptions of uncertainty in climate adaptation planning. We use this analytical approach in a case study with Yuibera and Koinmerburra Traditional Owner groups within the Great Barrier Reef Catchment. We conclude that a specific focus on sui generis indigenous knowledge and cultural institutions as a source of resilience can strengthen climate justice approaches and work more effectively with indigenous peoples in climate change contexts.
- Subjects :
- Global and Planetary Change
Climate justice
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Climate risk
media_common.quotation_subject
Vulnerability
Climate change
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
Indigenous
Political science
Agency (sociology)
Psychological resilience
Traditional knowledge
Environmental planning
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
media_common
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1436378X and 14363798
- Volume :
- 19
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Regional Environmental Change
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........623346a6cf5d0c268ebd0cbab938e4df