Lyons et al - Protecting what is left - making local perspectives of uncertainty count in climate adaptation planning
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Workshop on climate change and uncertainty from below and above, Delhi. http://steps-centre.org/2016/blog/climate-change-and-uncertainty-from-above-and-below/
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Lyons et al - Protecting what is left - making local perspectives of uncertainty count in climate adaptation planning
- 1. PROTECTING WHAT IS LEFT: MAKING LOCAL PERSPECTIVES OF UNCERTAINTY COUNT IN CLIMATE ADAPTATION PLANNING CSIRO, Koinmerburrra and Yuibera Aboriginal Corporations LAND AND WATER Pethie Lyons, Ro Hill, Samarla Deshong, Gary Mooney January 2016
- 2. Project Context Project: Wet Tropics Climate Cluster Project (in the Great Barrier Reef Catchment) Natural Resource Management Body: Reef Catchments NRM Pty Resources Provided: Modelled information Western Science Knowledge and Skills Focus of project: Collaborative project to develop indigenous component of regional climate adaptation plan Wet Tropics Climate Cluster
- 3. Initial Considerations: Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change Worldview and framing of climate change Intersection climate change with existing livelihood challenges Impact of climate change on cultural resources Documenting and Sharing Knowledge
- 4. Research Approach of Engaging New Partners Key Question at Engagement What are we offering Traditional Owners in this climate project? Approach Collaborative and negotiated including: - camping on country; -mapping; - recording and sharing knowledge; and - developing strategies for action.
- 5. Uncertainties embedded in a colonial past Cape Palmerston and Hillsborough Asked that we meet on country to: Demonstrate values through sharing Work together on country and see country Record sites & stories in key cultural areas and evidence of occupation Protect aboriginal sites for mob and future generations Raise awareness of culture Cape Hillsborough Cape Palmerston Shared Country
- 6. Being on-country: Uncertainties in Experiences of Change and Loss Cape Palmerston Seagrass beds
- 7. Uncertainties under Multiple Pressures that are Changing the Condition of Country
- 8. Uncertainties as part of everyday life Narrative to Protect What is Left Under: Continuing impacts of colonisation Economic development Trend of out-migration Short-term partnerships Limited inclusion in decision- making and in on-ground workSource: Reef Catchments NRM Pty Social Sensitivity and Adaptive Capacity
- 9. Uncertainty and the Need to Act has always been present Protect What is Left Need to act has always been present Climate adaptation plan to include existing NRM issues Projection and Risk Maps Highlighted the scale perspective of Western science and limits to access. Useful when they can be tested and understood on ground Maps adapted into the narrative to protect what is left Source: Reef Catchments NRM Pty Environmental Sensitivity and Adaptive Capacity
- 10. Narratives Reveal Importance of Identity in Change ‘Protect what is left’ is to protect what is not lost and strengthen connection to country and culture Context and local narratives critical to making sense of climate change Indigenous narratives reinforce importance of identity
- 11. Relationships to address Climate Change and Future Uncertainties are Needed Now Partnerships across agencies schools, different levels of government & private sector Long-term partnerships at enduring scales (e.g. ecological system GBR) Recognition and Inclusion of Traditional Owners in important decision spaces
- 12. Land and Water Flagship Thank you LAND AND WATER FLAGSHIP
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- In 2012 the Australian Government committed $44 million to Regional NRM Planning for Climate Change through its Clean Energy Future Plan (Australian Government, 2013). NRM or Natural resource management agencies are community based organisations that ....................... This funding was designed to support regional NRM organisations to update their NRM plans by using new regionally synthesised science products that support adaptation responses to climate change . In particular, the funding is intended to guide planning for climate change impacts on the land This paper is based on work undertaken in the Mackay-Whitsunday, one of the four geographically distinct NRM regions in Far North Queensland, grouped in the Wet Tropics Cluster (WTC). The other three NRM regions in the WTC are Wet Tropics, Cape York and the Torres Strait regions.
- Support Indigenous Peoples to document their knowledge and share knowledge is necessary first step bigger challenge of engaging with Indigenous processes of knowing about environmental change. Indigenous groups frame and perceive climate change based on their unique world view, socio-economic context while also engaging with western science and societies. Climate change intersects with and is likely to exacerbate significant social-economic-institutional barriers to sustainable development in remote/regional Indigenous economies. Indigenous peoples’ cultural practices, including customary harvesting, rely on access to a range of resources that are likely to be impacted negatively by climate-induced changes including cyclones, storm surge, sea level rise, changed water availability, changes to vegetation patterns and reduction in species’ availability. -Sources of strength and resilience and transformation in kin relations, decision-making relationships. -Indigenous engagement in natural resource management to respond to climate change is likely to improve health and well-being. - Local environments have recently become less predictable and readable for some groups, impacting their livelihood.
- Why would the Traditional Owners want to work with us? How is climate change important to them and what are the opportunities to both benefit from the project? Information about the Partners - We didn’t know each other – TIEC, CSIRO, REEF Catchments. Met in a room Staff newly engaging TOs. We didn’t have the project fully planned out apart from particular resources and some time lines.
- Map – Access to and camping on country limited to National Parks and Public areas. Yellow is Grazing and bright green is agricultural cropping, orange is urban Traditional Owners expressed that : -they share knowledge and values through being on country and working together on country -they didn’t want to talk in a room -different places on country require different management and there are diverse values.
- Shock Sense of Loss – Loss of orientation, loss of condition of country, loss of what they thought country looked like, loss of sites, loss to future generations, Loss of influence, Loss of trust (with those who visit country and those managing country), Threat of continuing loss (lack of recognition and awareness of Traditional Owners and their culture and value of country). Traditional Owners are already observing change on their country
- Multiple pressures on country – environmental change, tourism, development and urbanisation, recreational visitors, management of national parks, dugongs and turtles (sand), agricultural production and run-off, fishing. - Different ideas and priorities for management, including priorities to manage country
- Social sensitivity and Adaptive Capacity Protect what is left from impacts of colonisation 1) Climate Risk related to identity and context that includes connection to country and urban groups that with limited access to and resources to look after country. Social and cultural risk - CONTROL of cultural artefacts and protecting resources and values 2) Accelerated rate of development, including mining, tourism and urbanisation. 3) Lack of local employment and the challenge to sustain their culture through teaching = key concerns. The challenge of ‘too much’ to know and of the level of knowledge and effort required to maintain their claim to their country and to find funds to get on country on limited resources. 4)Multiple agencies and the challenge of responding to requests with limited capacity and resources, despite their strong interest to be involved.
- Genuine engagement on climate change needs to build on foundation of access to country, looking after country and maintenance of cultural practices. 2) Planning for climate change needs to address current concerns as well as future scenarios of change. --This includes building trust that all actors will act in the near future rather than a hope that we will all act some unforeseen time in the future. 3) Projections and risk maps are useful only when Traditional Owners are observing, monitoring and looking after country. Long-term local presence or observations in an area is important. 4) Key Question raised by Traditional Owners during project was, will agricultural producers on the coast be re-located as a result of sea-level rise and salt water intrusion and how Traditional Owners are going to be involved in those decisions.
- Narratives reinforce identity in effective pathways for change
- -Danger of short-term partnerships that require continual investment of time for Traditional Owners where there is high turn over of staff.