Negotiating Indigenous benefits from payment for ecosystem service (PES) schemes |
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| Institution: | 1. CSIRO Land and Water, CSIRO Ecosciences Precinct, 41 Boggo Rd, Dutton Park, QLD 4102, Australia;2. School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia;3. North Australia Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance, Australia;1. School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, AZ, USA;2. School of Natural Resources and the Environment and Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, University of Arizona, AZ, USA;1. School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW 2640, Australia;2. School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia;3. Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College, London, SW7 2AZ England, United Kingdom;4. Institute for Applied Ecology, University of Canberra, Bruce ACT 2601, Australia;5. Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra, Bruce ACT 2601, Australia;6. Chancellery, James Cook University, Townsville QLD 4811, Australia;1. Institute of Social Ecology Vienna, Alpen-Adria University, Schottenfeldgasse 29, 1070 Vienna, Austria;2. University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave W, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1;1. State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Mountain Ecology (Funded by Ministry of Science and Technology and Fujian Province), Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350007, PR China;2. College of Geographical Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350007, PR China;1. Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM, México D.F., Mexico;2. Centro de Estudios sobre Desarrollo Económico, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia |
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| Abstract: | This paper draws on research conducted with Aboriginal land managers across Northern Australia to show how and why payments for ecosystem service (PES) schemes should be framed around Indigenous rights to and relationships with their traditional estates. PES schemes offer opportunities to recognize and support Aboriginal communities' land and sea management knowledge and practices, and there is strong evidence that Indigenous communities are seeking to engage with such schemes. We focus on Aboriginal savanna landscape management, particularly traditional burning practices, to extend the ecosystem services framework to recognize Indigenous values and interactions with their lands as a critical service for Indigenous well-being. Drawing on case-study analysis of PES projects negotiated to support Aboriginal fire management programs across Northern Australia, we show how cultural ecosystem services can be applied to represent the active, dynamic and often interdependent relationships inherent in Indigenous human-environment relationships. |
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| Keywords: | Northern Australia Carbon offset schemes Indigenous landscape Burning Co-benefits Cultural ecosystem services Human rights |
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