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Indigenous peoples and biodiversity protection in wet tropics country: from co-management to collaborative governance
Volume 1 Interim policy-relevant findings
Rosemary Hill, Petina L. Pert, Kirsten Maclean, Toni Bauman, Ellie Bock, Allan P. Dale, M’Lis Flynn, Alf Joyce, Steve McDermott, Vince Mundraby, Phil Rist, Bruce Rampton, Joann Schmider, Leah D. Talbot and Lavenie Tawake
Technical Report
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1. Mutual interest identification
Problem co-framing and mutual interest identification with rights-holders and stake-holders
2. Co-research agreements with relevant organisations
Negotiating research collaboration agreements and letters of commitment to form a co-research team between scientists , Aboriginal peoples' and partners' organisations.
3. Context analysis, co-produced categories &
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Context analysis of documentary , institutional and spatial data. Co-producing a participatory framework of categories and indicators with review and revision through participatory workshops.
4. Participatory evaluation through multi-scalar community-driven processes
Workshops with Rainforest Aboriginal peoples at regional, sub-regional and tribal level in accordance with their particular cultural protocols. Regional workshop with partner organisations.
5. Collaborative analysis, interpretation, report- writing and theory-building
Analysis data from the participatory workshops together with other data previously collected. Review and revision by participants collaborative finalisation of reports by the co- research team.
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