Keys to successful negotiation of indigenous land use agreements and building consent for the development of natural resources, The Great Sandy Desert Project, a case study

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 516
Author(s):  
Jop van Hattum ◽  
Martin (Kusi) Bin-Rasheed ◽  
Graham Castledine
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Hydraulic Fracture ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Indigenous Australians ◽  
Sandy Desert ◽  
Canning Basin ◽  
Indigenous Land ◽  
Hydraulic Fracture Stimulation

Theia Energy Pty Ltd discovered a substantial hydrocarbon resource in the Canning Basin, NW in Western Australia, just 150-km SE of Broome. Since 2014, Theia Energy has built a robust working relationship with the traditional owners of the land that hold native title over their permits. This relationship has developed through negotiation meetings, on-country cultural heritage surveys and cultural awareness training. The relationship has culminated in the negotiation of indigenous land use agreements (ILUA) with the Karajarri People that manage the impacts of potential development of the resource including the impacts of hydraulic fracture stimulation, and provide significant economic development opportunities. The consistent exchange of information and views has developed mutual understanding and respect allowing for the effective and pragmatic treatment of risks to allow for the exploration, and if successful the development, of the onshore Canning Basin. The Great Sandy Desert Project has the potential to bring substantial benefits to regional communities and is significant for economic development of the West Kimberley, state revenue and national liquid fuel security. This study discusses important lessons learned in building trust with traditional owners and custodians of the land and how cultural values can be protected while providing social and economic opportunities for Indigenous Australians in a sustainable and culturally appropriate way. It reflects on the outcomes of the many scientific inquiries into hydraulic fracture stimulation and the perception of risks and impacts of traditional owners which must be addressed in a genuine, meaningful and effective way. It also sets out how traditional owners have, through the negotiation of the ILUA with Theia Energy and in the absence of clear policy from Government, chosen to establish their own system of regulation and economic participation in the project to address and manage risks and impacts from the development of resources on their country.

scholarly journals Supporting cancer control for Indigenous Australians: initiatives and challenges for cancer councils

2008 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaouli Shahid ◽  
Kerri R Beckmann ◽  
Sandra C Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Cancer Control ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Indigenous Australians ◽  
Cancer Statistics ◽  
Local Partnerships

As in other developed countries, the Australian population is ageing, and cancer rates increase with age. Despite their substantially lower life expectancy, Indigenous Australians are also experiencing concerning cancer statistics, characterised by increasing rates, later diagnosis, higher mortality, and lower participation in screening than the non-Indigenous population. Eighteen months after the first national Indigenous Cancer Control Forum, this environmental scan within the statebased Cancer Councils was undertaken to map activities in service provision in Indigenous cancer control with a view to sharing the lessons learned. The findings show that although most of the organisations had tried to work with Indigenous communities on cancer issues, there have been difficulties in building and sustaining relationships with Indigenous organisations. Lack of having Indigenous staff internally, few Indigenous-specific resources, and few planned, long-term commitments were some of the major impediments. Some of these limitations can easily be overcome by building and improving regional or local partnerships, providing cultural awareness training to internal staff, and by building the capacity of Indigenous organisations. Health promotion projects of the Cancer Councils directed at Indigenous people could be more effectively implemented with such considerations.

Conservation and privatization decisions in land reform of New Zealand’s high country

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Adena R Rissman ◽  
Molly C Daniels ◽  
Peter Tait ◽  
Xiaojing Xing ◽  
Ann L Brower
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Private Land ◽  
Conservation Easement ◽  
Land Reforms ◽  
Lower Productivity ◽  
Ecological Values

Summary Neoliberal land reforms to increase economic development have important implications for biodiversity conservation. This paper investigates land reform in New Zealand’s South Island that divides leased state-owned stations (ranches) with private grazing leases into state-owned conservation land, private land owned by the former leaseholder and private land under protective covenant (similar to conservation easement). Conserved lands had less threatened vegetation, lower productivity, less proximity to towns and steeper slopes than privatized lands. Covenants on private land were more common in intermediate zones with moderate land-use productivity and slope. Lands identified with ecological or recreational ‘significant inherent values’ were more likely to shift into conserved or covenant status. Yet among lands with identified ecological values, higher-threat areas were more likely to be privatized than lower-threat areas. This paper makes two novel contributions: (1) quantitatively examining the role of scientific recommendations about significant inherent values in land reform outcomes; and (2) examining the use of conservation covenants on privatized land. To achieve biodiversity goals, it is critical to avoid or prevent the removal of land-use restrictions beyond protected areas.

scholarly journals The Role of Technology in Greenhouse Agriculture: Towards a Sustainable Intensification in Campo de Dalías (Almería, Spain)

Agronomy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Antonio J. Mendoza-Fernández ◽  
Araceli Peña-Fernández ◽  
Luis Molina ◽  
Pedro A. Aguilera
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Temporal Evolution ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Sustainable Intensification ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Cultivation Techniques

Campo de Dalías, located in southeastern Spain, is the greatest European exponent of greenhouse agriculture. The development of this type of agriculture has led to an exponential economic development of one of the poorest areas of Spain, in a short period of time. Simultaneously, it has brought about a serious alteration of natural resources. This article will study the temporal evolution of changes in land use, and the exploitation of groundwater. Likewise, this study will delve into the technological development in greenhouses (irrigation techniques, new water resources, greenhouse structures or improvement in cultivation techniques) seeking a sustainable intensification of agriculture under plastic. This sustainable intensification also implies the conservation of existing natural areas.

Lessons learned from a VGI initiative for Land Use monitoring

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Ana-Maria Olteanu-Raimond ◽  
Marie-Dominique Van Damme ◽  
Laurence Jolivet
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Land Use Monitoring

The multiple landscapes of Biedjovággi: Ontological conflicts on indigenous land

Polar Record ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Britt Kramvig ◽  
Dag Avango
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Extractive Industries ◽  
Environmental Conflicts ◽  
Mining Company ◽  
Indigenous Land ◽  
The Way

Abstract In this article, we engage with environmental conflicts on indigenous land through a focus on an attempt to gain social licence to reopen and operate the Biedjovággi mine in Guovdageainnu/Kautokeino in Sápmi, Norway. We argue that mining prospects bring forth ontological conflicts concerning land use, as well as ways to know the landscape and the envisioned future that the land holds. It is a story of a conflict between two different ways of knowing. The paper explores the Sámi landscape through different concepts, practices and stories. We then contrast this to the way the same landscape is understood and narrated by a mining company, through the programmes and documents produced according to the Norwegian law and standards. We follow Ingold’s argument that the Sámi landscape practices are taskscapes, where places, times and tasks are interconnected. These were not acknowledged in the plans and documents of the mining company. We conclude by addressing the tendency of extractive industries to reduce different landscapes in ways that fit with modern understandings, which oppose culture to nature.

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