Socially Just Conservation | Towards Collaborative Hunting Management of Green Turtles and Dugongs in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, Australia

Melissa Jane Nursey-Bray

ISBN 10: 383649440X / ISBN 13: 9783836494403

Published by VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008

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Socially Just Conservation | Towards Collaborative Hunting Management of Green Turtles and Dugongs in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, Australia | Melissa Jane Nursey-Bray | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert | Englisch | 2008 | VDM Verlag Dr. Müller | EAN 9783836494403 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: OmniScriptum GmbH & Co. KG, Bahnhofstr. 28, 66111 Saarbrücken, info[at]akademikerverlag[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Socially Just Conservation | Towards Collaborative Hunting Management of Green Turtles and Dugongs in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, Australia
• Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 383649440X
• ISBN 13: 9783836494403
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 21W x 150H x 220D millimeters 21 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 220 millimeters depth
• Weight: 474 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Indigenous communities worldwide face multiple challenges to maintain their unique cultural identity and value systems. In the natural resource management arena, these challenges include the imposition of western solutions to environmental management and biodiversity protection. Indigenous peoples are responding to these challenges by asserting their cultural identity, developing cultural re-vitalisation programs, and actively participating in western political processes to ensure their ongoing involvement in the environmental and natural resource management domain. This book considers this issue through an examination of Indigenous hunting of threatened species (turtle and dugong) in a protected area, specifically the Aboriginal community of Hope Vale which is located along the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, Australia. Discourse analysis is used to examine the importance of developing common linguistic understandings in environmental management. Research findings show that the way language is used in environmental decision making does matter and that management agreements must be socially just in order to achieve conservation outcomes in Indigenous contexts.

About the Author

PhD James Cook University, a Churchill Fellow, now based at the AMC, an institute of the University of Tasmania. Melissa is a specialist in the field of socially just conservation with over a decade of experience in Indigenous and community based resource management. Melissa also focusses on building local community responses to climate change.