national workshop on indigenous knowledge for climate change adaptation - workshop program

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Indigenous knowledge or

climate change adaptation

Climate change poses a serious risk to everyone, including us as Aboriginal people. But to date

not enough has been done to understand the impact o climate change on us and how we might

adapt to climate change in order to preserve our culture, heritage and traditional way o lie.As we look or inspiration to tackle the climate challenge we discover it needs to originate rom

Indigenous people or Indigenous people. As our Elders state, looking back, moving orward,

and we do this through integrating Indigenous and Western knowledge.

National workshop

1415 November 2012

Echuca, Victoria

This workshop will examine how Indigenous knowledge can contribute to improved

climate change adaptation or Indigenous communities and the Australian

community in general, through ongoing protection o Cultural Heritage, promotion o

healthy ecosystems and community empowerment.

The workshop will bring together Indigenous leaders rom around the country with

researchers and international experts to share knowledge and experience and

to discuss where we are now, and what still needs to be done to maximise the

potential use o Indigenous knowledge or climate change adaptation.

Topics covered include:

Community archives o Indigenous knowledge

Indigenous knowledge ownership and confdentiality

Inormation & products derived rom Indigenous knowledge to support

adaptation decisions

Closing generational rits through knowledge exchange methods

Research developed, investigated, owned and controlled by Indigenous people

or Indigenous people

Gaka Yawell Ngulla YenbenaYorta Yorta Woka

Come Walk With Us OnYorta Yorta Country

Supported by:

1415 November 2012

Port o Echuca

Motel & Conerence Centre

Echuca, Victoria


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Tuesday 13 November 2012

4:008:30 Registration at the Port o Echuca Motel

7:008:30 Inormal welcome reception at the Port o Echuca Motel

Day 1: Wednesday 14 November 2012

7:008:45 Breakast (or Port o Echuca guests)

8:309:00 Registration

Tea & coee on arrival

9:0010:30 Session 1: Welcome and scene-setting

Chair: Lee Joachim

Rapporteur: Zac Bischo-Mattson

Welcome to Country

Colin Walker

Opening address

Denise Morgan-Bulled & Rochelle Patten

Starting the conversation

Kate Auty (Victorian Commissioner or Environmental Sustainability)

Aims and objectives o the workshop

Lee Joachim and Dave Griggs

10:3011:00 Morning Tea

11:0012:30 Session 2: Indigenous knowledge or climate change adaptation

Overview o how Indigenous knowledge can contribute to improved climate change

adaptation or Indigenous communities and the Australian community in general

Chair: Tom Day [TBC]

Rapporteur: Carolina Adler

11:0011:15 What is climate change and adaptation

Dave Griggs (Monash University) & Rowan Foley (Aboriginal Carbon Fund)

11:1511:25 Climate change adaptation and Indigenous people in Samoa

Leota Pepe Pai (Sili Community, Samoa)

11:2511:40 National Cultural Flows Research Project

Alistair Webster (National Native Title Council)

11:4012:30 Group discussion

12:301:30 Lunch

1:303:00 Session 3: Building a community archive o Indigenous knowledge

What methods and tools can Indigenous communities use to collect traditional

knowledge as a basis or climate change adaptation?

Chair: Rowan Foley

Rapporteur: Jan Muir

1:301:40 I-Tracker Program

Erica McCreedy (North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance Ltd)

1:401:50 NT Indigenous Ecological Knowledge Program

Nikki Brannigan (Central Land Council)1:502:00 Girringun cultural heritage mapping, environmental planning & GIS

Phil Rist (Girringun Aboriginal Corporation)


Workshop Program


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3:003:15 Aternoon Tea

3:153:45 Bus to the Dharnya Centre in Barmah to be joined by the Yorta Yorta community

3:455:00 Session 4: Research by Indigenous people or Indigenous people

How can Indigenous people develop their own research agenda by initiating, developing,

undertaking, controlling and owning the research?

Chair: Sonia Cooper

Rapporteur: Zac Bischo-Mattson

3:453:55 Learning or Indigenous knowledge in the Barmah-Millewa

Jackie Walker and Ebony Joachim (YYNAC)

3:554:05 A geographical inormation system (GIS) or the Yorta Yorta

Pan Wang (Monash University)

3:554:05 Turtle tracking in the Barmah-Millewa

Leah Beesley and Katie Howard (Victorian Department o Sustainability and Environment)


5:006:00 Guided walk in the Barmah Forest around the Dharnya Centre

6:008:30 Workshop dinner & cultural presentation Dharnya Centre

Day 2: Thursday, 15 November 2012

7:008:45 Breakast (or Port o Echuca guests)

Checkout or Port o Echuca guests leaving at the end o the workshop

9:0010:30 Session 5: Ensuring Indigenous knowledge ownership and confdentiality

What levels and types o protection need to be instituted to allow or appropriate

Indigenous knowledge to be shared with and beneft the wider community?

Chair: Kate Auty

Rapporteur: Louise Kyle

Anne Sheehan

Mark Harris

Group discussion

10:3011:00 Morning Tea

11:0012:30 Session 6: Indigenous natural resource management

How can Indigenous communities participate in managing natural resources on their

traditional lands?

Chair: Amanda Lynch

Rapporteur: Eleanor Sobey

11:0011:20 Hawaii Restoration Conservation Initiative & Kohala Watershed Partnership

Chris Heider (Watershed Proessionals Network, USA), Matt Hamabata (Kohala Center, Hawaii,

USA) and Kekuhi Kealiikanakaoleohaililani (Edith Kanakaole Foundation & University o Hawaii,

USA)

11:2011:30 Kowanyama NRM programs

Viv Sinnamon (Kowanyama Lands Ofce)

11:3011:40 Gunditj Mirring work on Mt Eccles/Lake Condah

Tom Day (Gunditj Mirring)

11:4012:30 Group discussion12:301:30 Lunch

Day 1: Wednesday 14 November 2012 Continued.


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1:303:00 Session 7: Aboriginal participation in adaptation-related decision making

How can Indigenous communities participate in larger-scale adaptation and natural

resource management decision and policy processes aecting their communities and

traditional lands?

Chair: Rueben Berg

Rapporteur: Sonia Cooper & Zac Bischo-Mattson1:301:55 Stakeholder viewpoints o Indigenous participation in decision making in the MDB

Carolina Adler (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) and Amanda Lynch (Brown University, USA)

1:552:15 How to engage with government and use Indigenous knowledge or better policy

outcomes

Ximena Traa-Valarezo (World Bank)

2:152:30 Indigenous engagement at the Department o Climate Change and Energy Efciency

Jeremy Dore (DCCEE)


3:003:30 Aternoon Tea

3:304:30 Session 8: Closing PlenaryChair: Dave Griggs

Rapporteurs: Carolina Adler & Zac Bischo-Mattson

3:304:00 Panel discussion:

How can we strengthen the contribution o Indigenous knowledge to improved climate change

adaptation or Indigenous communities and the Australian community in general?

4:004:20 Workshop recommendations & next steps

4:204:30 Closing

4:30 Close

5:00 Bus rom Echuca to Melbourne via Melbourne Airport

Day 2: Thursday, 15 November 2012 Continued.

national workshop on indigenous knowledge for climate change adaptation - workshop program

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