The role of culture and traditional knowledge in climate change adaptation: Insights from East Kimberley, Australia
Abstract
We examine a community-based project to record indigenous knowledge. We explore how indigenous knowledge informs individuals' values and choices. Worldviews shape how people perceive and respond to climate change. Indigenous knowledge informs the acceptability of adaptation options.
- Publication:
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Global Environmental Change
- Pub Date:
- June 2013
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.02.012
- Bibcode:
- 2013GEC....23..623L
- Keywords:
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- Adaptation;
- Indigenous peoples;
- Culture;
- Traditional ecological knowledge;
- Worldviews;
- Australia