Social Networking for Aboriginal Land Management in Remote Northern Australia

摘要: Social networks play a crucial role in linking poorly-resourced community-based Aboriginal land and sea management 'ranger' groups operating remote Northern Australia with the resources support required to fulfil natural cultural resource objectives. A lack of piecemeal funding demands that significant proportion utilised are directed at creating capital programs, addition created for undertaking itself. Other have been neighbouring managers develop cooperative collaborative practices. The network structure one ranger group west Arnhem region Territory was analysed, revealed resilience due high dependence on externally sourced coordinator. reliance web complex both program undertake activities raises questions about viability such programs. In particular, time, level skill associated capacity negotiate social construction range actors brings into question communities' maintain functions independently. Continued functionality these programs may depend simplification streamlining funding, removal intensive bureaucratic reporting requirements more active development participants creation, particularly external community.