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Climate Change, Mining and Traditional Indigenous Knowledge in Australia

Australia, in common with nations globally, faces an immediate and future environmental and economic challenge as an outcome of climate change. Indigenous communities in Australia, some who live a precarious economic and social existence, are particularly vulnerable to climate change. Impacts are already being experienced through dramatic weather events such as floods and bushfires. Other, more gradual changes, such as rising sea levels in the north of Australia, will have long-term negative consequences on communities, including the possibility of forced relocation. Climate change is also a historical phenomenon, and Indigenous communities hold a depth of knowledge of climate change and its impact on local ecologies of benefit to the wider community when policies to deal with an increasingly warmer world are considered. Non-Indigenous society must respect this knowledge and facilitate alliances with Indigenous communities based on a greater recognition of traditional knowledge systems. (author's abstract)

ISSN
2183-2803
Umfang
Seite(n): 92-101
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Erschienen in
Social Inclusion, 4(1)

Thema
Ökologie
Ökologie und Umwelt
Australien
Klimawandel
Klimapolitik
Umweltpolitik
Klimaschutz
Anpassung
Vulnerabilität
indigene Völker
Naturkatastrophe
Katastrophenschutz
Erfahrungswissen
ethnische Beziehungen
Bergbau
Rohstoffvorkommen

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Birch, Tony
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wann)
2016

DOI
Letzte Aktualisierung
21.06.2024, 16:27 MESZ

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Objekttyp

  • Zeitschriftenartikel

Beteiligte

  • Birch, Tony

Entstanden

  • 2016

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