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Impact of Climate Change on Indigenous Australian Aboriginals

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Impact of Climate Change on Indigenous Australian Aboriginals

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Impact of Climate Change on Indigenous Australian Aboriginals: Assessing theIndigenous Land Policy for address the impact of climate change on Indigenous AustralianAboriginalsAuthor’s NameInstitutional AffiliationDate
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Background:Globally, the climatic change has been regarded as the outrageous policy crisis. The Indigenous Aboriginal people have been surviving on the Australian continent for centuries. According to The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Third Assessment Report (TAR), the aboriginals are one of the most potential communities who will be directly affected by the climate change1. It raises challenges and risks for their culture, resources and lands. According to many global academics and natural scientist, the climatic change is largely induced by human activities. Tribal activities like tress cutting and burning, deforestations and burning grasslands at large scales are facilitating the impact of climate change in a higher degree.The global agents and institutions has lately shown concerns and addressed the issue of the current climatic transformation debate with its stressing on the immediate action is shocking simply in the time span the questions have been raised in Australia now. In 1996, the very first report was published by the Commonwealth Minister for the Environment addressing theclimate concern within Australia. The report of Australia: State of the Environment 1996, states that the environment and its natural resources should be managed that will enable its ecological sustainability2. The report is an example of essential source of environmental information about Australian climatic changing issue and the basic challenge is to utilize the available knowledge information for the use of societal betterment and suitability of the ecosystem. Despite mainstream engagement and concerns about addressing the climatic change and related policy in Australia the Indigenous Aboriginal’s role and involvement is 1Goodall, H. (2008).Invasion to embassy: land in Aboriginal politics in New South Wales, 1770-1972. Sydney University Press.2Behrendt, L. (2003).Achieving social justice: Indigenous rights and Australia's future. Federation Press.
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negligible3. They do not possess any long-term engagement with government and communitypolicy or reformation regarding the rising issue of climatic change. In the current situation, the Aboriginals of Australia are in front of extreme existing challenges due to rising concerns of climatic change. The main areas of concerns are- poor health facilities, unemployment and illiteracy, low levels of income, poor and inadequate infrastructure for communal development. The climatic change and its impact will facilitate in worsen the current and existing issues and challenges faced by the aboriginals. Aim of the ResearchIn the Part I of this paper, the author will begin with identifying and recognizing the vulnerability of Indigenous Australian Aboriginal and emphasising the significance of climatic stability for the sustainability of the Australian Aboriginals. The research will highlight the vulnerability of Australian Aboriginals to the climatic change due to the geographic distribution of settlement of the tribal population and the vastness of the Indigenous-owned estate within the continent. People living in interiors of Indigenous-ownedestate generally face more hardship in everyday life due to the nature of Indigenous hybrid economies and lack of proper economic setup4. Also, the positive aspect of the challenge is that more than 20% of the total land area of the Australian continent is under the control of under land rights and native title laws where the Aboriginal Australians enjoy special control over the land5. 3Green, D. L. (2006).Climate change and health: impacts on remote Indigenous communitiesin northern Australia. Aspendale: CSIRO.4Nix, H., Mackey, B., Traill, B., &Woinarski, J. (2013).The nature of Northern Australia: its natural values, ecological processes and future prospects(p. 127). ANU Press.5Bayon, R., Carroll, N., & Fox, J. (2012).Conservation and biodiversity banking: a guide to setting up and running biodiversity credit trading systems. Earthscan.
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