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标题：Indigenous environmental values as human values
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作者：Monica Gratani ; Stephen G. Sutton ; James R.A. Butler 等
期刊名称：Cogent Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2331-1886
出版年度：2016
卷号：2
期号：1
页码：1185811
DOI：10.1080/23311886.2016.1185811
语种：English
出版社：Taylor and Francis Ltd
摘要：Abstract The claim that in natural resource management (NRM) a change from anthropocentric values and ethics to eco-centric ones is necessary to achieve sustainability leads to the search for eco-centric models of relationship with the environment. Indigenous cultures can provide such models; hence, there is the need for multicultural societies to further include their values in NRM. In this article, we investigate the environmental values placed on a freshwater environment of the Wet Tropics by a community of indigenous Australians. We discuss their environmental values as human values, and so as beliefs that guide communities’ understanding of how the natural world should be viewed and treated by humans. This perspective represents a step forward in our understanding of indigenous environmental values, and a way to overcome the paradigm of indigenous values as valued biophysical attributes of the environment or processes happening in landscapes. Our results show that the participant community holds biospheric values. Restoring these values in the NRM of the Wet Tropics could contribute to sustainability and environmental justice in the area.
关键词：environmental values ; ethics ; sustainability ; indigenous Australians ; collaborative comanagement ; Wet Tropics ; worldview