LibGuides: Environment & Society: Indigenous resources in ANU Library Collections on environment and society topics

ANU Graduate Attribute - Insight into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ knowledges and Indigenous peoples’ perspectives (IP-GA)

Development of this content supports the ANU Graduate Attribute - Insight into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ knowledges and Indigenous peoples’ perspectives (IP-GA). Content that explicitly explores Indigenous ways of knowing relevant to the discipline.

Indigenous resources in ANU LIbrary Collections on environment and society topics can be explored from the boxes below.

Indigenous environmental management

Search the ANU Catalogue and SuperSearch with the following search terms to find books and articles and other resources on Indigenous topics in ANU Library Collections on xxx.

("environmental science OR biodiversity OR conservation OR "land management" OR "fire ecology" OR "fire management") AND (aborig* OR "australian aborig*" OR "aboriginal australian" OR "first nations" OR "australian indigenous" OR "indigenous australia* OR indigenous OR "first nations" OR "torres strait" OR "torres strait islander")

A select list of ebooks is in the box below and click here for the full search results for books and e-books and for journal articles on the topic.

Fire country : how Indigenous fire management could help save Australia by Steffensen, Victor,
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Publication Date: 2020
Delving deep into the Australian landscape and the environmental challenges we face, Fire Country is a powerful account from Indigenous land management expert Victor Steffensen on how the revival of Indigenous fire practices, including improved'reading'of country and undertaking'cool burns', could help to restore our nation.
Australia's Megafires : Biodiversity Impacts and Lessons From 2019-2020. by van Leeuwen, Stephen.
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ISBN: 1486316654
Publication Date: 2023
Explores the impacts of the Black Summer bushfires on biodiversity, and the lessons to be learnt. Including - Empowering Indigenous leadership and participation in wildfire recovery, cultural burning and land management.
Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild by Robyn Bartel (Editor); et al
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Publication Date: 2020
Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild: Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence examines the complexities surrounding the concept of wilderness. Contemporary wilderness scholarship has tended to fall into two categories: the so-called 'fortress conservation' and 'co-existence' schools of thought.
Traditional Knowledge and Climate Change by Ana Penteado (Editor); et al
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Publication Date: 2024
This edited book uses a methodology that includes multidisciplinary collaboration to approach climate issues from several disciplines involved in climate governance. The main aim is to showcase collaborative research designed from the point of view of experiences associated with Indigenous Knowledge from an assumption of the equitable importance of its practices, methods of search, and cultural background that Indigenous Peoples custodians have maintained through time immemorial.