Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0346498

Funded Activity Summary

UNDER WATER: a comparative ethnographic analysis of water use and resource management in Queensland and Western Australia. Via ethnographic fieldwork in four watershed catchment areas, this comparative study examines how interest groups use and manage water resources. Working with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal groups, pastoralists, miners, farmers and fishers, it will provide comprehensive in-depth analysis of the ways in which people conceptualise, use and evaluate water. The study will investigate different perspectives on water resource management and environmental issues, such as salinity. Its major objectives are to further understanding of human-environmental relations in contrasting settings. By elucidating various practices, needs and values, we will show how conflicts might be resolved and effective management of water resources ensured.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 20-08-2003

End Date: 19-08-2008

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $686,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Natural Resource Management | Anthropology | Social And Cultural Anthropology | Studies In Human Society Not Elsewhere Classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Land and water management | Studies in human society | Environmental and resource evaluation not elsewhere classified |

Other Keywords

Anthropology | Environmental and resource evaluation not elsewhere classified | Land and water management | Natural Resource Management | Social And Cultural Anthropology | Studies In Human Society Not Elsewhere Classified | Studies in human society

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