Living Land Living Culture Aboriginal Heritage and Salinity

About this publication

Date published: June 2005

Subject: Cultural heritage

ID: DEC20050003

Living Land Living Culture is a 90-page illustrated book based on a two-year research project to investigate the impact of salinity on Aboriginal culture and heritage in NSW. The study was an initiative of the NSW Salinity Strategy, announced in 2000, and focuses on the Wiradjuri Aboriginal people and their traditional country in central NSW. It documents Wiradjurii concerns about the impact of salinity on their heritage sites and the way in which it is making it increasingly difficult to find and utilise medicinal plants and wild foods.

The authors present ideas and strategies for dealing with these problems. It describes ways in which Aboriginal people can be involved and how their values can be included in strategies to deal with salinity. The book's core message is that the management of natural and cultural heritage needs to be linked and that there needs to be a better understanding of the relationship between people's sense of place and the condition of the environment around them. It is intended to be a resource for environmental planners and land managers and it is anticipated that it will be instrumental in bringing this aspect of salinity to the attention of many people for the first time.

Documents to download

This publication is available in two versions.

If you have a broadband internet connection, you may wish to download the complete book (2.0MB):

• Living Land Living Culture Aboriginal Heritage and Salinity (PDF - 2.0MB)

If you have a dial-up internet connection, you may wish to download sections of the book individually:

• Living Land Living Culture Aboriginal Heritage and Salinity

   

  • Part 1 (PDF - 440KB)

     

    • Contents
    • Foreword
    • Acknowledgments
    • Chapter 1 - Introduction
  • Part 2 (PDF - 731KB)

     

    • Chapter 2 - The Aboriginal Heritage and Salinity Project
    • Part 3 (PDF - 1.1MB)

       

      • Chapter 3 - The Wellington case-study

• Part 4 (PDF - 429KB)

   

• Chapter 4 - Looking ahead
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

More information

• Buy Living Land Living Cultures from the NSW Government Online Bookshop