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This project commenced in July 2017. Within the context of reducing natural hazard risk and increasing resilience in southern Australia, it focuses explicitly on the risk and resilience priorities of Indigenous communities in southern Australia, the emergency management sector’s priorities for these communities, and how these interests interact. Its intention is to identify where improvements might be made to reduce natural hazard risk and increase social and ecological resilience. This research complements existing and completed CRC projects.
Drawing upon and supporting innovation where it is occurring, this project will engage with natural hazards practitioners and decision-makers (including those of Indigenous and other cultural backgrounds) and Indigenous communities. The project’s intention is to build an inclusive narrative of intercultural hazard risk management which Indigenous peoples and practitioners can buy into. Building trust, capacity and knowledge in these intercultural contexts will reduce risk to Indigenous peoples, the wider community, and the environments in which we live.
This action-research project has three objectives:
- Investigate the hazard priorities of diverse Indigenous communities in southern Australia, and the emergency management sector’s engagement with these communities;
- Conduct collaborative research with Indigenous peoples and sector practitioners to explore how better engagement can be supported, with a focus on the interaction of scientific, Indigenous and other knowledge sources;
- Analyse and report on what this dynamic intercultural context can offer practice and policy, including with respect to the merging of risk and resilience agendas.
Year | Type | Citation |
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2020 | Book Chapter | Natural Hazards and Disaster Justice: Challenges for Australia and Its Neighbours 299-317 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0466-2_16 |
2020 | Report | Hazards, culture and Indigenous communities – annual report 2018-2019. (Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC, 2020). |
2020 | Report | Aboriginal Peoples and the response to the 2019-2020 bushfires. (Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, 2020). doi:https://doi.org/10.25911/ 5e7882623186c |
2020 | Report | Hazards, culture and indigenous communities: socio-institutional modules for utilisation. (Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC, 2020). |
2019 | Journal Article | Walking together: a decolonising experiment in bushfire management on Dja Dja Wurrung country. Cultural Geographies 1, (2019). |
2019 | Report | Hazards, Culture and Indigenous Communities Annual Report 2017-2018. (Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC, 2019). |
2019 | Report | Fire in the south: a cross-continental exchange. (Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC, 2019). |
2018 | Journal Article | The natural hazard sector's engagement with Indigenous peoples: a critical review of CANZUS countries. Geographical research (2018). doi:10.1111/1745-5871.12314 |
2018 | Report | Southeast Australia Aboriginal fire forum. (Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC, 2018). |
2017 | Conference Paper | Research proceedings from the 2017 Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC and AFAC Conference. Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC & AFAC annual conference 2017 (Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC, 2017). |
Date | Title | Download | Key Topics |
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18 Apr 2017 | Hazards, Culture and Indigenous Communities |
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indigenous communities, resilience, risk management |
29 Jun 2017 | Cultural burning |
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communities, indigenous communities, prescribed burning |
07 Jul 2017 | Lightning presentation: hazards, culture and indigenous communities |
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indigenous communities, resilience, risk management |
31 Aug 2017 | Fire Australia Issue Three 2017 |
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child-centred, prescribed burning, severe weather |
17 Apr 2018 | Hazards, culture and Indigenous communities |
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emergency management, indigenous communities, multi-hazard |
09 Apr 2019 | Coexisting with combustion: the future of bushfire management |
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communities, fire, fire impacts |
24 Sep 2019 | Hazards, culture and Indigenous communities |
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indigenous communities, multi-hazard |
31 Jul 2020 | Bushfire lessons from cultural burns | fire, indigenous communities, land management |