TY  - JOUR
TI  - Restoring cultural plant communities at sacred water sites
AU  - Caron, Valerie
AU  - Brim Box, Jayne
AU  - Dobson, Veronica P.
AU  - Dobson, Victor
AU  - Richmond, Luke
AU  - Thompson, Ross M.
AU  - Dyer, Fiona
T2  - Australasian Journal of Water Resources
AB  - Water places have been critical to central Australian Indigenous peoples for thousands of years. However, many waterhole communities have been degraded by factors including invasion by large feral herbivores and non-native plants. We document the restoration of two waterholes near Santa Teresa (Ltyentye Apurte), with a focus on culturally significant plants. We described plant communities around waterholes in 2007, before fences were erected to exclude large feral animals, and again in 2018. Plant cover and diversity were higher after fencing and the occurrence of culturally significant plants greatly increased. However, invasive buffel grass was the dominant ground cover after fencing and will require active suppression to allow culturally significant native plants to proliferate. Traditional Owners identified excellent opportunities to achieve restoration through educating young people, with a focus on sharing intergenerational knowledge and engaging local Indigenous rangers in management, enabling them to meet the traditional obligations to care for country.
DA  - 2021/01/02/
PY  - 2021
DO  - 10.1080/13241583.2021.1888854
VL  - 25
IS  - 1
SP  - 70
EP  - 79
SN  - 1324-1583
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/13241583.2021.1888854
Y2  - 2022/12/12/01:54:23
KW  - Landscape architecture
ER  - 

TY  - JOUR
TI  - Indigenous research methodologies in water management: learning from Australia and New Zealand for application on Kamilaroi country
AU  - Moggridge, Bradley J.
AU  - Thompson, Ross M.
AU  - Radoll, Peter
T2  - Wetlands Ecology and Management
AB  - Indigenous Research Methodologies (IRMs) for considering cultural values of water are a missing component of water and wetlands management in Australia. On this dry, flat and ancient continent Traditional Knowledge has been passed on from generation to generation for millennia. The profound knowledge of surface and groundwater has been critical to ensuring the survival of Indigenous peoples in the driest inhabited continent, through finding, re-finding and protecting water. Indigenous Research Methodologies can provide a basis for the exploration of this knowledge in a way that that is culturally appropriate, and which generates a culturally safe space for Indigenous researchers and communities. The development of IRMs has been and continues to be limited in Australia in the water context, primarily due to the lack of Indigenous water practitioners, with non-Indigenous researchers dominating the sector. The intention of the paper is to shift and decolonise the research paradigm from studying Indigenous peoples through non-Indigenous research methodologies, to partnering in developing methods appropriate to Indigenous knowledge systems. Indigenous Research Methodologies are rooted in Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies and represent a radical departure from more positivist forms of research (Wilson, Can J Native Educ 25:2, 2001). This allows the Indigenous researcher to derive the terms, questions, and priorities of what is being researched, how the community is engaged, and how the research is delivered. This paper provides an overview of Indigenous engagement in water management in Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand), with reference to case studies. These more general models are used as the basis for developing an IRM appropriate to the Kamilaroi people in the Gwydir Wetlands of northern NSW, Australia.
DA  - 2022/08//
PY  - 2022
DO  - 10.1007/s11273-022-09866-4
VL  - 30
IS  - 4
SP  - 853
EP  - 868
LA  - English
SN  - 0923-4861
UR  - https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/indigenous-research-methodologies-water/docview/2703671079/se-2?accountid=12372
AN  - 2703671079
DB  - ProQuest Central
KW  - Aotearoa
KW  - Australia
KW  - Cultural values
KW  - Environmental Studies
KW  - Epistemology
KW  - Groundwater
KW  - Indigenous
KW  - Indigenous Peoples' knowledge
KW  - Indigenous knowledge
KW  - Indigenous peoples
KW  - Indigenous research methodologies
KW  - Kamilaroi
KW  - Knowledge representation
KW  - Māori
KW  - Native peoples
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Research
KW  - Research methodology
KW  - Research methods
KW  - Survival
KW  - Traditional knowledge
KW  - Water
KW  - Water management
KW  - Water resource management
KW  - Wetland
KW  - Wetland management
KW  - Wetlands
ER  - 

TY  - JOUR
TI  - Cultural value of water and western water management: an Australian indigenous perspective
AU  - Moggridge, Bradley J.
AU  - Thompson, Ross M.
T2  - Australasian Journal of Water Resources
DA  - 2021///
PY  - 2021
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1080/13241583.2021.1897926
DP  - Google Scholar
VL  - 25
IS  - 1
SP  - 4
EP  - 14
ST  - Cultural value of water and western water management
UR  - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13241583.2021.1897926
KW  - Landscape architecture
KW  - Urban planning
ER  -