Living on Climate-Changed Country: Indigenous Health, Well-Being and Climate Change in Remote Australian Communities

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Living on Climate-Changed Country: Indigenous Health, Well-Being and Climate Change in Remote Australian Communities

Summary:

This paper argues that it is time to explicitly draw on Indigenous definitions of health, which directly address the need to connect individual and community health to the health of their country, in order to develop effective climate adaptation and health strategies. It details how current health policies in Australia overlook this ‘missing’ dimension of Indigenous connection to country, and why that is likely to be detrimental to the health and well-being of people living in remote communities.

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Source: AdaptNet

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