Investing in Indigenous Natural Resource Management
M.K. Luckert; B.M. Campbell, J.T. Gorman and S.T. Garnett
This book assesses the case for investing in Indigenous natural
resource management (NRM) in tropical Australia, arguing that
Indigenous people provide a number of public goods in relation to
environmental management for which they are not remunerated.
Individual and collective engagement with ancestrally significant
land and sea improves health outcomes, while also supporting
individual autonomy and social cohesion through cultural
practices.
This book brings together a broad suite of authors with an
understanding of Indigenous NRM and the economics thereof.
Indigenous NRM emerges as a “keystone policy area” that
could allow integration of many policy fields commonly considered
in isolation.
The editors all have wide experience in the fields covered by
this book. Professor Marty Luckert from the University of Alberta
has been offering insights into the economics of environmental
management around the world for decades, Professor Bruce Campbell
from Charles Darwin University (CDU) has an international
reputation for his work on livelihoods among the rural poor, Julian
Gorman (CDU) has played a key role in fostering wildlife-based
industries among Indigenous people in the monsoonal tropics of the
Northern Territory and Professor Stephen Garnett (CDU) has broad
experience in management of tropical environments, particularly
northern Australia.
RRP: $22.95
Charles Darwin University Press
Web: www.cdu.edu.au/cdupress/
