Download or read book Improved Settlement Planning and Environmental Health in Remote Aboriginal Communities written by Mark Moran and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Landscape for Health written by Jim Sinatra and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This report aims to establish future planning directions as a critical component of national health strategies for rural and remote indigenous communities. It offers alternative ideas about housing, planning and community development, and proposes that people's living environments are designed according to their culture, society and location. It challenges indigenous communities and organisations involved in planning and housing to creat a vision for improving health issues related to the environments in which people live." - cover.

Download or read book Cultural Hybridity and the Environment written by Kirsten Maclean and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-07 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the importance of diversity in overcoming issues of social and environmental degradation. It presents conceptual and practical strategies to celebrate local and Indigenous knowledge for improved community development and environmental management. David Harvey has proclaimed, “The geography we make must be a peoples’ geography.” This clarion call challenges geographers around the world to consider the power and potential of geographic knowledge as the basis for social action – a call this book answers, providing readers the theoretical and conceptual tools needed to understand the social world and empowering them to mobilize social change. The author uses empirical case studies of two environmental management and community development projects to document how knowledge generation is “essentially locally situated and socially derived.” In doing so she charts a path for moving beyond what Vandana Shiva so aptly describes as “monocultures of the mind.” The book argues that local and Indigenous knowledge must not be seen in opposition to scientific knowledge, as none of these knowledge traditions hold all the answers to localized socio-environmental problems. Rather, as the author explores through a set of processes and strategies to enable, support and celebrate ‘cultural hybridity’ at the local environmental governance scale, these respective knowledge systems can learn to speak to each other. Such dialogue has the potential to support more sustainable outcomes at multiple environmental governance locales. This book will be of interest to everyone involved in environmental policy, planning or politics, and for those who want to make this planet a more sustainable and just place.

Download or read book 2005 Year Book Australia written by and published by Aust. Bureau of Statistics. This book was released on 2004 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Enabling Aboriginal Communities to Improve Their Environmental Health related Practices written by Helen Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1991* with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Australian Aboriginal Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reclaiming Indigenous Planning written by Ryan Walker and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centuries-old community planning practices in Indigenous communities in Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia have, in modern times, been eclipsed by ill-suited western approaches, mostly derived from colonial and neo-colonial traditions. Since planning outcomes have failed to reflect the rights and interests of Indigenous people, attempts to reclaim planning have become a priority for many Indigenous nations throughout the world. In Reclaiming Indigenous Planning, scholars and practitioners connect the past and present to facilitate better planning for the future. With examples from the Canadian Arctic to the Australian desert, and the cities, towns, reserves and reservations in between, contributors engage topics including Indigenous mobilization and resistance, awareness-raising and seven-generations visioning, Indigenous participation in community planning processes, and forms of governance. Relying on case studies and personal narratives, these essays emphasize the critical need for Indigenous communities to reclaim control of the political, socio-cultural, and economic agendas that shape their lives. The first book to bring Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors together across continents, Reclaiming Indigenous Planning shows how urban and rural communities around the world are reformulating planning practices that incorporate traditional knowledge, cultural identity, and stewardship over land and resources. Contributors include Robert Adkins (Community and Economic Development Consultant, USA), Chris Andersen (Alberta), Giovanni Attili (La Sapienza), Aaron Aubin (Dillon Consulting), Shaun Awatere (Landcare Research, New Zealand), Yale Belanger (Lethbridge), Keith Chaulk (Memorial), Stephen Cornell (Arizona), Sherrie Cross (Macquarie), Kim Doohan (Native Title and Resource Claims Consultant, Australia), Kerri Jo Fortier (Simpcw First Nation), Bethany Haalboom (Victoria University, New Zealand), Lisa Hardess (Hardess Planning Inc.), Garth Harmsworth (Landcare Research, New Zealand), Sharon Hausam (Pueblo of Laguna), Michael Hibbard (Oregon), Richard Howitt (Macquarie), Ted Jojola (New Mexico), Tanira Kingi (AgResearch, New Zealand), Marcus Lane (Griffith), Rebecca Lawrence (Umea), Gaim Lunkapis (Malaysia Sabah), Laura Mannell (Planning Consultant, Canada), Hirini Matunga (Lincoln University, New Zealand), Deborah McGregor (Toronto), Oscar Montes de Oca (AgResearch, New Zealand), Samantha Muller (Flinders), David Natcher (Saskatchewan), Frank Palermo (Dalhousie), Robert Patrick (Saskatchewan), Craig Pauling (Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu), Kurt Peters (Oregon State), Libby Porter (Monash), Andrea Procter (Memorial), Sarah Prout (Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health, Australia), Catherine Robinson (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia), Shadrach Rolleston (Planning Consultant, New Zealand), Leonie Sandercock (British Columbia), Crispin Smith (Planning Consultant, Canada), Sandie Suchet-Pearson (Macquarie), Siri Veland (Brown), Ryan Walker (Saskatchewan), Liz Wedderburn (AgResearch, New Zealand).

Download or read book Tabbner s Nursing Care written by Gabby Koutoukidis and published by Elsevier Australia. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 1105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text covers a wide range of issues surrounding nursing, midwifery and health visiting. The topics it covers are the structure and functions of the human body, nursing care and nursing needs, care of the individual with a body system disorder, and special aspects of nursing care. This edition written for Australia and NZ students.

Download or read book EBOOK Health Promotion written by Garry Egger and published by McGraw-Hill Education Australia. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health Promotion Strategies and Methods Third Edition is the essential guide to developing effective health programs for the Australian population. The book presents the key principles of health promotion and demonstrates how they can be applied. This new edition provides a structured approach to devising health programs by focusing on planning, development and implementation. It also clearly explains the differences in individual, group and mass population approaches to health intervention and prevention programs. This is a practical introduction for health practitioners and students in public health, health sciences, medicine, nursing and epidemiology. Key features: thoroughly revised and updated to reflect current health practices and incorporating the latest referencesfocuses on developing targeted strategies and techniqueswritten by Australian authors who are leaders in the fielduseful tips, summaries and case studies throughout concise and accessible style.

Download or read book National Indigenous Housing Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Indigenous Housing Guide is a tool to assist in the design, construction and maintenance of housing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The guide provides practical advice on the design, selection, installation, construction and maintenance of housing health hardware and other aspects related to environmental health, for example dealing with dust, insects and dogs. It is a resource for everybody involved in providing housing to Indigenous people, including community councils, Indigenous housing workers, council chief executive officers, architects, project managers, tradespeople and government officials. The guide complements the building code of Australia, Australian Standards, state and territory building standards, state and territory environmental health, building and planning legislation and local government building regulations.

Download or read book Indigenous Rights and Water Resource Management written by Katie O'Bryan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era of climate change, the need to manage our water resources effectively for future generations has become an increasingly significant challenge. Indigenous management practices have been successfully used to manage inland water systems around the world for thousands of years, and Indigenous people have been calling for a greater role in the management of water resources. As First Peoples and as holders of important knowledge of sustainable water management practices, they regard themselves as custodians and rights holders, deserving of a meaningful role in decision-making. This book argues that a key (albeit not the only) means of ensuring appropriate participation in decision-making about water management is for such participation to be legislatively mandated. To this end, the book draws on case studies in Australia and New Zealand in order to elaborate the legislative tools necessary to ensure Indigenous participation, consultation and representation in the water management landscape.

Download or read book Participation and Control of Tourism Planning for Remote Aboriginal Communities written by University of Guelph. University School of Rural Planning and Development and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ten Commitments Revisited written by Steve Morton and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the 10 key issues that must be addressed urgently to improve Australia's environment? In this follow up to the highly successful book Ten Commitments: Reshaping the Lucky Country's Environment, Australia’s leading environmental thinkers have written provocative chapters on what must be done to tackle Australia's environmental problems – in terms of policies, on-ground actions and research. Each chapter begins with a brief overview of the 10 key tasks that need to be addressed in a given field, and then each issue is discussed in more detail. Chapters are grouped into ecosystems, sectors and cross-cutting themes. Topics include: deserts, rangelands, temperate eucalypt woodlands, tropical savanna landscapes, urban settlements, forestry management , tropical and temperate marine ecosystems, tropical rainforests, alpine ecosystems, freshwater ecosystems, coasts, islands, soils, fisheries, agriculture, mining, grazing, tourism, industry and manufacturing, protected areas, Indigenous land and sea management, climate change, water, biodiversity, population, human health, fire, energy and more. Ten Commitments Revisited is a must read for politicians, policy makers, decision makers, practitioners and others with an interest in Australia’s environment.

Download or read book Managing Water and Waste in the New Millennium written by P. Pybus and published by IWA Publishing (International Water Assoc). This book was released on 2001-09-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the major problems facing the developing world is the rapid expansion of low-income urban areas as a result of migration in from rural areas. The result has been staggering growth in informal settlement areas around many major cities and consequent pressure on the sustainable supply of potable water and waste disposal that challenges governments, NGOs and the communities themselves. To mitigate these problems it will also be necessary to address the issues as they relate to rural and isolated communities. Successful solutions need multidisciplinary approaches that engage with social and institutional aspects as much as the technical and environmental. The 24 papers selected for these proceedings tackle various problems of water supply, sanitation and industrial waste treatment, addressing the issues at strategic and managerial levels as well as in localized and practical techniques. Together they enable all interested parties to share the experience and expertise from around the world that is leading the way towards successful water and waste management in the new millennium.

Download or read book Environmental Health Planning and Action written by Peter Mark Stephenson and published by Batchelor Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developed under the Indigenous Communities Environmental Health, Workforce Capacity Building Program, University of Western Sydney

Download or read book The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture written by Elizabeth Grant and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​This Handbook provides the first comprehensive international overview of significant contemporary Indigenous architecture, practice, and discourse, showcasing established and emerging Indigenous authors and practitioners from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, Canada, USA and other countries. It captures the breadth and depth of contemporary work in the field, establishes the historical and present context of the work, and highlights important future directions for research and practice. The topics covered include Indigenous placemaking, identity, cultural regeneration and Indigenous knowledges. The book brings together eminent and emerging scholars and practitioners to discuss and compare major projects and design approaches, to reflect on the main issues and debates, while enhancing theoretical understandings of contemporary Indigenous architecture.The book is an indispensable resource for scholars, students, policy makers, and other professionals seeking to understand the ways in which Indigenous people have a built tradition or aspire to translate their cultures into the built environment. It is also an essential reference for academics and practitioners working in the field of the built environment, who need up-to-date knowledge of current practices and discourse on Indigenous peoples and their architecture.

Download or read book Geographic Information Systems as Communication Tools written by Jennifer Ann McGetrick and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction. The industrialization of circumpolar regions confronts a legacy of disproportionate bio-physical, socio-economic, heritage, and health impacts borne by indigenous populations. As natural resource development continues to accelerate in the north, concerns about impacts to the health and well-being of indigenous communities lead many to question whether the benefits of industrialization outweigh the risks. Legally mandated consultation processes to identify and mitigate development impacts are beginning to incorporate provisions for improving health outcomes to maximize the benefits and minimize the risks for indigenous communities. Nevertheless, the complex nature and diversity of evidence involved necessitates new tools to network information across scientific and cultural gradients, and ensure the long-term viability of health impact assessment within decision-making forums. Geographic Information Systems, or GIS, are one tool with the potential to facilitate appropriate public health planning in the context of natural resource development. My thesis research is among the first to engage arctic and subarctic stakeholders on the topic of whether GIS can improve communication and consultations about health impacts in forums focused on environmental assessment of natural resource developments in circumpolar regions. Methods. I employed a mixed-methods qualitative approach involving three lines of inquiry. First, I conducted semi-structured interviews with circumpolar experts in policy, research, and practice. This research engaged expert perspectives on whether GIS can improve consultations by leveraging health impacts in the process of project approvals and regulation, which currently focus on changes in the physical environment. Second, I conducted document review / automated content analysis on the public record for two environmental assessments (the Prairie Creek and Nico mines) in the Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada. This research identified health and socio-economic content, characterized the communication practices of key stakeholder groups, and linked salient features of the environmental assessment processes with public health planning-related outcomes in each case. Third, I conducted semi-structured interviews with stakeholders in the Nico environmental assessment in the Wek'eezhii region of the NWT. This research provided evidence from which I derived an organizational analysis of how GIS can be used to leverage health issues from the community-base, thereby increasing the impetus to establish and sustain health impact assessment within the environmental assessment process. Results. My results can be grouped under three main themes. First, self-determination and governance are the critical issues which define circumpolar indigenous communities' relationship with the state, stewardship of resources, and capacity for public health planning. Second, the complexity of health inequities in these indigenous communities requires extensive participation and guidance from community members who articulate their priorities and worldviews to help operationalize appropriate public health planning in the context of circumpolar developments. Third, while GIS may appear advantageous for communicating health inequities in decision-making forums, circumpolar indigenous communities must see its demonstrated utility for their own needs and aspirations, in ways that they define for themselves. Partnerships with government and academia can help to facilitate "counter mapping" processes in communities that may generate appropriate, relevant, timely, and local-scale data about the socio-ecological parameters of health and well-being. Conclusion. My results lead to three recommendations and two implications for future research. My recommendations are (1) Circumpolar nations should establish legal norms that recognize a full range of rights for indigenous populations; (2) Circumpolar jurisdictions should revise environmental assessment frameworks to incorporate equity-based health impact assessment; and (3) Circumpolar researchers and health practitioners working with community-based participatory GIS should publish detailed protocols for knowledge translation. Future research should (1) consider how to support indigenous researchers and research methodologies to examine the socio-ecological pathways or mechanisms by which development impacts circumpolar health and well-being. Additionally, research should (2) evaluate best practices to employ GIS in participatory research with indigenous peoples.