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Abstract
This paper considers the usefulness of a range of analytical approaches to describing
the impact of natural resource management on Indigenous people. Six approaches are
reviewed here with examples from the literature. These include: a well-being index
approach used recently by Greiner with the Australian Nywaigi people; a replacement
value approach to valuing wild resource harvests for the Wallis Lake area of north
eastern New South Wales; a bio-economic approach to Indigenous/Non-Indigenous
fisheries management of the Ontario Great Lakes used by Dyack; a stated preference
approach used in New Zealand; a Choice Experiment in northern Saskatchewan and
Alberta; and, a Goal Programming/Multi-Criteria Analysis with the Wik People from the
York Peninsula in north eastern Australia. The purpose of this review is to provide a
discussion document for a new project. This project is developing as a collaboration in
the Murray River Basin in south east Australia with the Ngarrindjeri People. Examples
highlight the challenges for measuring values and well being especially when the context
implies potential tradeoffs between Indigenous interests for health of country and nonindigenous
interests. References in this regard are made to sport fishery expansion in
the Great Lakes and irrigation diversions for the Murray