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<strong>Aboriginal</strong> <strong>Waterways</strong> <strong>Assessment</strong> — Part C Literature review 67<br />
PART C<br />
Activity Good practice References in the literature<br />
Use of Action Research<br />
in <strong>Aboriginal</strong> policy and<br />
research arenas<br />
Providing capacity building<br />
to support local communities<br />
to make cultural assessments<br />
of rivers and wetlands<br />
through two-way and<br />
informal learning<br />
Action Research enables the principles<br />
of ‘free, prior and informed consent’ to<br />
be attained in two-way learning which<br />
generates trust, respect and localised<br />
good practice<br />
All team members and participants<br />
use formal and informal reflective<br />
processes of learning to build capacity<br />
across cultures to carry out the<br />
assessment<br />
Hunt, 2013 — Other studies of Participatory<br />
Action Research with Indigenous people<br />
indicate how free, prior and informed<br />
consent can be attained in a context of<br />
mutual learning, where researchers and<br />
Indigenous people bring their different<br />
world views and knowledge systems to<br />
the research endeavour, enabling effective<br />
engagement (Claudie et al. 2012; Cleary<br />
2012) (p. 22)<br />
Tipa, Panelli & the Moeraki Stream Team<br />
2009 — The team started with a workshop<br />
session at the marae to discuss different<br />
conceptualisations of well-being. This was<br />
followed by a reflective session where the<br />
team discussed the practical organisation<br />
of the fieldwork component of our Cultural<br />
Health Index assessments (p. 101)<br />
Recognising the value of<br />
<strong>Aboriginal</strong> knowledge in water<br />
planning and management<br />
Traditional Owner participation in water<br />
management and planning is organised<br />
to enable participants’ contributions to<br />
ecological knowledge and complement<br />
non-<strong>Aboriginal</strong> sciences<br />
Somerville 2014 — Fifteen academics from<br />
different disciplines and locations around<br />
the world draw on the concept of the<br />
Anthropocene… They provide substantial<br />
evidence of the significance of local ecological<br />
knowledge expressed as stories, ceremonies,<br />
and discourses that potentially enable humans<br />
to live in balance with the environment<br />
without the need for catastrophic learning in<br />
the event of major resource depletion (p. 403)