Indigenous ENGAGEMENT IN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 7 7 Indigenous engagement in natural and cultural resource management

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Indigenous engagement in natural and cultural resource management
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The indigenous people of Australia in present times engages with a lot of regionalized
approach to the environmental management which is offering lot of occasions for participating in
Indigenous Ecological Knowledge (IEK) and different western science for promoting the
diversity in culture as well as the sustainability of social and ecological system (Bohensky,Butler
and Davies 2013). The engagement of indigenous people is increasing globally in the
environmental management due to which there is an increase in the recognition of their rights
and interests as well as the value of their Indigenous Ecological Knowledge. The Australian
indigenous peoples proclaims their independent rights and their securities in cooperative self-
determination as well as their control on their expected estates. It is important in recognizing that
the term has become very popular in the discourses of public policies in the field of health,
education, different employments, natural resource management and the systems of welfare at
the state, international and national levels.
The community engagement is a critical component for working with the indigenous community
in both Australia as well as other countries. The indigenous engagement is mainly participatory
and expansion in nature which is often used for shaping the policy and the development of
programs, approaching research scopes and supporting the enhanced delivery in service in a wide
range of settings which includes the educational sector (Walsh,Dobson and Douglas 2013).
However the community engagement can be different in the physical, social as well as the
cultural, economic and cultural contexts. National Resource Management on land is both owned
and controlled by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and is shaped with the help of
overall legal policies which contexts the operations at the national, state as well as local levels. A
good indigenous engagement may be defined as the process which involves both the Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander people for solving problems or making decisions which will be used as

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a community input for making better decisions (Pert et al.,2015). Both the terms community and
engagements are contested equally. Some authors argues that the logic of typology about the
community engagement has involvement of sharing information. The indigenous communities
and the organizations have involvement in managing a broad range of programs, services and the
businesses. In the recent context of governing the Natural Resource Management, the
effectiveness and attractiveness of the management of the various stakeholders including the
indigenous people has been documented. In context to Australia there is a growth in the
perception of the rights of the indigenous land of the country (Maclean,Robinson and Natcher
2015). A lot of indigenous societies which directly depend on the natural resources have adapted
the norms which controls the usage of the resources. Some of the practices which involve the
management of resources are based on the mechanism of the social enforcement. The policy
made by the Australian governments in response to the indigenous rights has made an increase in
the indigenous claims as well as the control over the responsibilities in the management of the
environment of about one fifth of the total continental land mass
The indigenous land and sea management, also known as “caring for the country”, comprises of
a huge range of environmental, natural as well a cultural resources and a lot of heritage
management activity which are undertaken by different NGOs, business companies as well as
government agencies (Maclean,Robinson and Natcher 2015). These activities has originated
from the holistic relationship between the outmoded Aboriginal and the Torres Strait individual
societies as well as their customary estates of land and sea for an approximate 50,000 years
(Altman,Larsen and Buchanan 2018). All the different levels of the government recognizes the
environmental values as well as the huge diversity of the indigenous management lands and they
all co-operatively initiate the caring of the country and they respond to this with the help of