Future change in ancient worlds : Indigenous adaptation in northern Australia / authors: Deanne Bird [and 10 others]
- Bib ID:
- 8046640
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Bird, Deanne Katherine, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit.
- Online Version:
- National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility
- Edition:
- Final report.
- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available online.
- Description:
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- Gold Coast, Queensland : National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, 2013
- 1 online resource (261 pages) : some colour illustrations, maps, charts.
- ISBN:
- 9781925039887
- Technical Details:
- Available online (as at 01/10/15) at: https://www.nccarf.edu.au/publications/future-change-indigenous-adaptation-northern-australia.
- Summary:
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This report examines the underlying vulnerabilities, adaptive capacities and population movements of Indigenous people in four communities in northern Australia - Broome in Western Australia; Maningrida and Ngukurr in the Northern Territory; and Wujal Wujal in Queensland. Northern Australia is highly exposed to a number of natural hazards including: cyclones and associated storm surges, riverine and flash flooding, heatwaves, coastal erosion, bushfires and drought - some of which might be exacerbated by climate change. With an approximate population of 160,000 Indigenous people (29% of the total Indigenous population of Australia) it is critical to develop a multifaceted understanding of how climate change will affect Indigenous communities in northern Australia. Moreover, decisions about how to support Indigenous communities to adapt to and reduce their risks from climate change impacts must be informed by greater understandings of their current adaptive capacities, e.g. why they may be vulnerable or resilient, how they have coped with and adapted to past environmental changes, who is likely to leave, stay or return, and how sustainable communities can be maintained.
- Notes:
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- Title from PDF title page (viewed on October 1, 2015)
- NCCARF Adaptation Research Grants Program, Indigenous Communities.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Bird, D, Govan, J, Murphy, H, Harwood, S, Haynes, K, Carson, D, Russell, S, King, D, Wensing, E, Tsakissiris, S & Larkin, S 2013,Future change in ancient worlds: Indigenous adaptation in northern Australia, National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Gold Coast, 261 pp.
- Also available online (as at 01/10/15) at: https://www.nccarf.edu.au/publications/future-change-indigenous-adaptation-northern-australia.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Music Publisher Number:
- NCCARF Publication 117/13
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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