Islands of Hope

Islands of Hope

Indigenous Resource Management in a Changing Pacific

Edited by: Paul D’Arcy, Daya Dakasi Da-Wei Kuan

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In the Pacific, as elsewhere, indigenous communities live with the consequences of environmental mismanagement and over-exploitation but rarely benefit from the short-term economic profits such actions may generate within the global system.

National and international policy frameworks ultimately rely on local community assent. Without effective local participation and partnership, these extremely imposed frameworks miss out on millennia of local observation and understanding and seldom deliver viable and sustained environmental, cultural and economic benefits at the local level.

This collection argues that environmental sustainability, indigenous political empowerment and economic viability will succeed only by taking account of distinct local contexts and cultures. In this regard, these Pacific indigenous case studies offer ‘islands of hope’ for all communities marginalised by increasingly intrusive—and increasingly rapid—technological changes and by global dietary, economic, political and military forces with whom they have no direct contact or influence.

Details

ISBN (print):
9781760465612
ISBN (online):
9781760465629
Imprint:
ANU Press
DOI:
http://doi.org/10.22459/IH.2023
Series:
Pacific Series
Disciplines:
Arts & Humanities: Cultural Studies; Social Sciences: Indigenous Studies
Countries:
Pacific

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