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Participatory Policy Development: Reflections on Designing the Strong Roots for Our Futures Program in Victoria

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we trace the journey to create the Strong Roots for our Futures Program, a government program to resource and support Traditional Owners to undertake a range of activities in areas where no state recognition existed. We provide a background to state recognition in Victoria before considering the program design, leading to an ...
Nell Reidy, Bhiamie Williamson, Jesse Williams   +2 more
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National and International Monitoring of Student Literacy and Numeracy Attainment: The Case for Rigorous Macro and Micro Analysis

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major international (PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS) and national (NAPLAN) standardised assessments pertaining to literacy and numeracy.
Pamela C. Snow, Tanya A. Serry, Jennifer Buckingham, Lorraine S. Hammond, Stephen Dinham, Eamon Charles, Tessa A. Weadman, Nathanial R. Swain, Susan Hiland, Tessa Daffern   +9 more
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Integrating hunter knowledge with community-based conservation in the Pamir Region of Tajikistan

Ecology and Society, 2020
Indigenous hunting communities around the world possess capabilities to accumulate and maintain knowledge based on their traditional practices, cultural norms, and belief systems.
Qobiljon Shokirov, Norman Backhaus
doaj   +1 more source

Conducting research with Indigenous people and communities [PDF]

, 2013
Past critiques of the social sciences focused primarily on the identity of the researcher and his or her relationship with the ‘subject’ Indigenous person, but over time more sophisticated and practical approaches have emerged related to ...
Judy Putt
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Hidden in the Labour Market: An Intersectional Latent Class Analysis of Discouraged Workers in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study employs an intersectionality‐informed latent class analysis (LCA) to examine the hidden diversity of discouraged workers in Australia. Drawing on nationally representative data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, we identified six empirically distinct subgroups defined by intersecting demographic and ...
Sora Lee, Woojin Kang
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Wing Shot Hunting Club records

, 1935
This collection contains materials and records from the Wing Shot Hunting ...
Wing Shot Hunting Club (Lonoke and Prarie County, Ark.)
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Strengthening Treaty Understanding: The Role of Education in Building Durable Indigenous–State Agreements

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Education is a central mechanism for ensuring that Indigenous–State treaties are understood, supported and endure through political change. Public knowledge shapes the negotiation, acceptance, implementation and long‐term stability of agreements. In Australia, however, treaty knowledge remains fragmented.
Jacob Prehn, Harry Hobbs, Jessica Horton
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Decision analysis rooted in Indigenous and Western scientific knowledge identifies cost‐effective strategies for managing hyperabundant deer to restore keystone places

People and Nature
The hyperabundance of herbivores—a result of altered human relationality with the land and the extirpation of predators—is leading to large‐scale degradation of keystone ecosystems across the globe. Designing and implementing socially acceptable and cost‐
Sofie McComb, Kephra Beckett, T’awaxwultun (Joe) Akerman, Peter Arcese, Derek Bedford, Peter Dunwiddie, Jason T. Fisher, Todd Golumbia, Emily K. Gonzales, Robyn Irvine, Alvin James, Eric S. Long, Jean‐Louis Martin, Steve Michel, W̱IĆKINEM (Eric) Pelkey, Thi’h’elum (August) Sylvester, S’umtqinum (Ken) Thomas, Nadine Thomas, Tara G. Martin   +18 more
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"How can we refuse the gift of spirits?" Ontological conflicts between indigenous hunting practices and conservation projects in northern Mongolia

Journal of Political Ecology
Conflicts between indigenous people and state authorities over conservation projects are increasing in many parts of the world, as traditional indigenous territories mostly coincide with areas that hold 80% of the world's biodiversity.
Selcen Kucukustel
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Road development and the geography of hunting by an Amazonian indigenous group: consequences for wildlife conservation. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Protected areas are essential for conservation of wildlife populations. However, in the tropics there are two important factors that may interact to threaten this objective: 1) road development associated with large-scale resource extraction near or ...
Santiago Espinosa, Lyn C Branch, Rubén Cueva   +2 more
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