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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.10.009
	Procedural vulnerability: Understanding environmental change in a remote indigenous community
	Veland S.; Howitt R.; Dominey-Howes D.; Thomalla F.; Houston D.
发表日期	2013
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	23 期号:1
英文摘要	The challenge of reaching common understanding of the processes and significance of environmental change amounts to a procedural vulnerability in climate change research that hinders successfully translating knowledge into equitable and effective adaptation policy. This article presents findings from research with Indigenous participants in West Arnhem, Australia, and identifies a procedural vulnerability to climate change research, where perceptions of change and their meaning have their context in Dreaming that supersedes and parallels Western scientific discourses of hazard and risk, but that are marginalised in studies and policies on climate change. This paper argues that moves to adapt remote Indigenous Australian communities to climate change risk missing the mark if they (a) assume that a strong reliance on particular ecosystem configurations makes Indigenous cultures universally vulnerable to environmental change, (b) do not recognise cosmologically embedded risks that are determined by Indigenous capacity to take care of country, and (c) do not recognise colonisation as an ongoing disaster in Indigenous Nations, and therefore treat secondary disasters such as poverty, ill health and welfare dependence as primary contributors to high climate change vulnerability. Procedural vulnerabilities contribute to policy failure, and in Australian contexts pose a risk of conceiving solutions to climate change vulnerability that involve moving people out of the way of environmental risks as they are conceived within colonial traditions, while moving them into the way of risks as conceived through the eyes of remote Indigenous communities. This research joins recent publications that encourage researchers and policy-makers to epistemologically ground proof risk assessments and to listen and engage in conversations that create ways of 'seeing with both eyes', while not being blind to the hazards of colonisation. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Climate change; Disaster; Hazard; Indigenous; Vulnerability
学科领域	climate change; colonization; environmental hazard; environmental policy; environmental risk; indigenous population; policy making; research work; risk assessment; vulnerability; Arnhem Land; Australia; Northern Territory
语种	英语
scopus关键词	climate change; colonization; environmental hazard; environmental policy; environmental risk; indigenous population; policy making; research work; risk assessment; vulnerability; Arnhem Land; Australia; Northern Territory
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117983
作者单位	Department of Environment and Geography, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia; Australian Tsunami Research Centre, Natural Hazards Research Laboratory, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia; Environmental Change Initiative, Brown University, Providence RI, 02912, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Veland S.,Howitt R.,Dominey-Howes D.,et al. Procedural vulnerability: Understanding environmental change in a remote indigenous community[J],2013,23(1).
APA	Veland S.,Howitt R.,Dominey-Howes D.,Thomalla F.,&Houston D..(2013).Procedural vulnerability: Understanding environmental change in a remote indigenous community.Global Environmental Change,23(1).
MLA	Veland S.,et al."Procedural vulnerability: Understanding environmental change in a remote indigenous community".Global Environmental Change 23.1(2013).