Aboriginal Waterways Assessment program

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66 Aboriginal Waterways Assessment — Part C Literature review Good practice — how the research project reflects the literature As noted in the literature review the interest in including Aboriginal knowledge in assessing environmental and cultural values in a practical manner is a relatively new one. The Aboriginal Waterways Assessment research strategy has much to offer with regard to contributing to this important new field. The following table identifies where the activities taking place in both the research approach and the assessment activities reflects current good practice in this area as discussed in the literature exemplified by selected quotations. Activity Good practice References in the literature Involving Aboriginal people in negotiating their Country’s water needs Developing an approach that accesses international Aboriginal Knowledge Credible, viable and valid knowledge of how to address indigenous water requirements contribute to the technical ability of specifying volumes, contributing to Aboriginal and government agency capacity, and better policy to resolve competing interests Re-conceptualising water to comprehensively respond to over extraction and pollution of fresh water by recognising the value of Aboriginal knowledge systems in natural resource management and water in particular Tan & Jackson, 2013 — Indigenous initiation and control of planning are key to sharing equitable intercultural space for ongoing negotiation of co-management (p. 148) Tipa, Panelli & the Moeraki Stream Team 2009 — As Castree 2004 argues, Indigenous groups can mobilise local and global connections afforded via indigenism to pursue ‘situational pragmatism’ associated with ‘place projects’ as they seek to redress past dispossessions and pursue diverse ‘property’ claims (p. 97) Somerville 2014 — Rethinking ways of researching water knowledges, different practices of language and representation, and recognition of the possibilities of radically different epistemologies (p. 410)
Aboriginal Waterways Assessment — Part C Literature review 67 PART C Activity Good practice References in the literature Use of Action Research in Aboriginal policy and research arenas Providing capacity building to support local communities to make cultural assessments of rivers and wetlands through two-way and informal learning Action Research enables the principles of ‘free, prior and informed consent’ to be attained in two-way learning which generates trust, respect and localised good practice All team members and participants use formal and informal reflective processes of learning to build capacity across cultures to carry out the assessment Hunt, 2013 — Other studies of Participatory Action Research with Indigenous people indicate how free, prior and informed consent can be attained in a context of mutual learning, where researchers and Indigenous people bring their different world views and knowledge systems to the research endeavour, enabling effective engagement (Claudie et al. 2012; Cleary 2012) (p. 22) Tipa, Panelli & the Moeraki Stream Team 2009 — The team started with a workshop session at the marae to discuss different conceptualisations of well-being. This was followed by a reflective session where the team discussed the practical organisation of the fieldwork component of our Cultural Health Index assessments (p. 101) Recognising the value of Aboriginal knowledge in water planning and management Traditional Owner participation in water management and planning is organised to enable participants’ contributions to ecological knowledge and complement non-Aboriginal sciences Somerville 2014 — Fifteen academics from different disciplines and locations around the world draw on the concept of the Anthropocene… They provide substantial evidence of the significance of local ecological knowledge expressed as stories, ceremonies, and discourses that potentially enable humans to live in balance with the environment without the need for catastrophic learning in the event of major resource depletion (p. 403)
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