Old ways for New Days: Climate change adaptation and Indigenous peoples, Australia — YRD
  1. Schedule
  2. No Place Like Home: Adaptation and Sense of Place -(Oral Presentations)
  3. Old ways for New Days: Climate change adaptation and Indigenous peoples, Australia

Old ways for New Days: Climate change adaptation and Indigenous peoples, Australia (2558)

Melissa Nursey-Bray 1 , Phil Rist 2 , Rob Palmer 1 , TimTim Smith 3 , Dana Thomsen
  1. University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
  2. Girringun Aboriginal Corporation, Cardwell, Queensland, Australia
  3. Sustainabiliyt Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

Indigenous Australians are projected to be disproportionately affected by climate change. Yet across Australia, Indigenous peoples and communities are developing and implementing a diverse range of programs aimed at combatting climate change on their countries. These include education programs, ranger programs, impact assessments, cultural maintenance and development of climate change adaptation strategies.  While patchy, these initiatives nonetheless represent a building momentum, driven by Indigenous peoples to create culturally responsive approaches to managing climate change which inlcude deep thinking abotuhow to build adaptive capacity while building economic livelihoods. This paper, based on a systematic review of these programs and insights from peer learning events, led by the Indigenous  theme of the NCCARF SEI Network,  presents the challenges, responses and ways forward, as suggested by Indigenous peoples in this space.