Libby Larsen
Natural and Cultural Resource Management
Topical Issue 7 / 2006
November 2006 -
Two submissions by CAEPR researchers Jon Altman and Libby Larsen relating to issues of Indigenous participation in natural and cultural resource management: one to the Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts Committee's Inquiry into Australia's National Parks, Conservation Reserves and Marine Protected Areas, and the second to the Department of the Environment and Heritage's
The environmental significance of the Indigenous estate: Natural resource management as economic development in remote Australia
Discussion Paper 286 / 2007
Abstract:
This discussion paper explores the geography of the Indigenous estate, its environmental significance, and some of the innovative approaches adopted by Indigenous landholders to protect the natural and cultural values of their land. A number of maps are used to explore the environmental significance of the Indigenous estate. These maps indicate that the Indigenous estate—making up 20 per cent of the Australian land mass—covers vast areas of relatively intact land. The Indigenous estate contains some of the highest conservation priority lands in Australia.
