Indigenous Values and Water Resource Management: A Case Study from the Northern Territory

摘要: Indigenous people have a significant stake in water resource management arising from customary socio-ecological relationships, which is highly valued element or property, and also contemporary practice. In many regions of Australia, are landowners, with rights to aquatic, living resources. Whilst rivers wetlands now being recognised as legitimate ‘users’ water, interests water-allocation processes, including their ecological knowledge, tended be neglected. small number Australian catchments, incipient allocation processes endeavouring acknowledge protect ‘cultural values’ water-dependent ecosystems. Where north values been considered, there has tendency assume that surrogate environmental flow will address cultural requirements. This paper describes the nature specific region the...