Nursey-Bray Melissa, Palmer Robert
Department of Geography, Environment and Population, Faculty of Arts, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, 5005, Australia.
Department of Media, Faculty of Arts, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, 5005, Australia.
Heliyon. 2018 Mar 14;4(3):e00565. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2018.e00565. eCollection 2018 Mar.
Indigenous peoples are going to be disproportionately affected by climate change. Developing tailored, place based, and culturally appropriate solutions will be necessary. Yet finding cultural and institutional 'fit' within and between competing values-based climate and environmental management governance regimes remains an ongoing challenge. This paper reports on a collaborative research project with the Arabana people of central Australia, that resulted in the production of the first Indigenous community-based climate change adaptation strategy in Australia. We aimed to try and understand what conditions are needed to support Indigenous driven adaptation initiatives, if there are any cultural differences that need accounting for and how, once developed they be integrated into existing governance arrangements. Our analysis found that climate change adaptation is based on the centrality of the connection to 'country' (traditional land), it needs to be aligned with cultural values, and focus on the building of adaptive capacity. We find that the development of climate change adaptation initiatives cannot be divorced from the historical context of how the Arabana experienced and collectively remember colonisation. We argue that in developing culturally responsive climate governance for and with Indigenous peoples, that that the history of colonisation and the ongoing dominance of entrenched Western governance regimes needs acknowledging and redressing into contemporary environmental/climate management.
原住民将受到气候变化的不成比例的影响。制定量身定制、基于特定地点且符合文化习俗的解决方案将是必要的。然而，在相互竞争的基于价值观的气候与环境管理治理体系内部及之间找到文化和制度上的“契合点”仍是一项持续的挑战。本文报告了一个与澳大利亚中部阿拉巴纳人合作的研究项目，该项目成果是澳大利亚首个基于原住民社区的气候变化适应策略。我们旨在尝试理解支持原住民主导的适应举措需要哪些条件，是否存在需要考虑的文化差异，以及这些举措一旦制定后如何融入现有的治理安排。我们的分析发现，气候变化适应基于与“家园”（传统土地）的联系的核心地位，它需要与文化价值观保持一致，并注重适应能力的建设。我们发现，气候变化适应举措的制定不能脱离阿拉巴纳人经历和集体记忆殖民化的历史背景。我们认为，在为原住民并与原住民共同制定具有文化响应性的气候治理时，殖民历史以及根深蒂固的西方治理体系的持续主导地位需要在当代环境/气候管理中得到承认和纠正。
