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Efforts to protect land and environmental resources, including fighting climate change, often end up displacing people who have lived in those places for generations.
Beyond the Meeting of the Waters reminds us that the campaign for justice is a long and abiding process. It is not measured in moments, but generations.
For decades, wilderness lands have been left largely unaltered by human activity. But those places are still changing, and keeping them wild and special may require action, not inaction.
As climate extremes intensify, adaptation debates favor new technologies. Terraces in the Philippines and Morocco show how people modified their landscapes to respond to past climate shifts.
Indigenous forest management practices can help control wildfires’ frequency and severity, while also restoring people’s connections to the land.
‘40 acres and a mule’ never happened. Now governments and communities across the US are redistributing land and wealth, from Evanston, Illinois, to Athens, Georgia.
A new federal government strategy outlines how to elevate the rights of Indigenous Australians
The emergence of a well-resourced rival claim to Indigenous land rights is of growing concern to the Innu people of Labrador-Quebec.
There is ample evidence showing Indigenous Peoples and their territories are essential to the world’s biodiversity. We don’t need an unsupported statistic to prove it.
If this case succeeds, it could set a precedent to hold major polluters responsible for the effects of climate change – even on the other side of the world.
Getting serious about protecting global biodiversity requires not just policy but a revolution in how we talk about, and with, our planet’s forests.
The failed Voice to Parliament referendum dashed the hopes of many mapping out a path to reconciliation. If we look to the example set by North American Indians, there might be another way forward.
Most of us see only the dry treeless plain and spectacular sea cliffs. But beneath the surface there’s a precious world of caves and unique species that could be lost without better protection.
The decision of the people of Ecuador to halt oil extraction in the Yasuní is a trend-setting precedent of global importance and a victory that Canadians should build upon.
To effectively address climate hazards like wildfire, we must consider the diverse experiences of people, account for longstanding institutions and create processes that empower local people.
Local Aboriginal Land Councils are some of the largest private landowners in NSW. Making it easier for them to develop their land will benefit Indigenous communities and the rest of the public.
The new city bears a colonial name and there are questions about locating it in the hottest part of Sydney, but we are also seeing all 3 tiers of government work together in an innovative way.
What Yorta Yorta leader William Cooper was asking for was a means by which Australia’s lawmakers could be informed of the views of Aboriginal people.
Wilma Mankiller’s groundbreaking tenure as chief of the Cherokee Nation introduced the US to the power of Indigenous women’s leadership.
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PhD student of law, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
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Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, and Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Professor, Australian and Aboriginal History, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, Convenor: Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada
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Post doctoral fellow and Conservation Ecologist, Macquarie University
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Associate Lecturer, School of Geography and Sustainable Communities, University of Wollongong
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Senior Fellow, Development Geography, The University of Melbourne
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Darug custodian. Assistant Manager Blue Mountains Aboriginal Culture & Resource Centre. Adjunct Fellow, Department of Geography & Planning, Macquarie University, Macquarie University
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ARC Industry Fellow, Adelaide University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Political Science, UCL
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Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Executive Director of the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University; King's College London
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Professor of Environmental Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London