Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of acronyms and abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1: Chapter abstract
1.2: A framework for cultural hybridity
1.3: Epistemological tools
1.4: Empirical case studies show local dimensions of the wider complexities of {u2018}ecologically sustainable development{u2019}
1.4.1: Empirical case studies
1.5: Book structure
1.6: Reference list
Part 1: The foundations for a new conceptual framework for cultural hybridity
Chapter 2: An environmental and social crisis?
2.1: Chapter abstract
2.2: Is there a crisis?
2.3: A critique of contemporary development theory
2.4: The sustainable development era
2.5: Sustainable development as participation
2.6: Sustainable development as knowledge(s)
2.7: Social and institutional learning for ecologically sustainable development
2.8: Environmental governance in Australia
2.9: Conclusion
2.10: Reference list
Chapter 3: An applied peoples{u2019} geography as the basis of the framework for cultural hybridity
3.1: Chapter abstract
3.2: Power is an entangled and complex force
3.3: A critique of knowledge generation
3.3.1: A foray into the history and philosophy of science
3.3.2: Knowledge is connected to place
3.3.3: Situated knowledges move through networks
3.4: Governance scale is a relational social construct
3.5: Colonial discourses of nature
3.6: Conclusion
3.7: Reference list
Part 2: Edge politics-in-action
Chapter 4: Political landscapes
4.1: Chapter abstract
4.2: Regional Natural Resource Management in Australia
4.3: Regionalism in Victoria and the Northern Territory
4.4: Case study 1: threatened species in the landscape
4.5: Case study 2: fire in the landscape
4.6: Together, let{u2019}s give our land a hand
4.6.1: The complexities of {u2018}together-ness{u2019}
4.6.2: Varieties of Regionalism
4.6.3: A diversity of hands for Natural Resource Management in Australia
4.6.4: The view from the local
4.7: Conclusion
4.8: Reference list
Chapter 5: Cultural landscapes
5.1: Chapter abstract
5.2: Case study narratives
5.3: Historical narratives
5.4: Contemporary realities
5.5: Difference and diversity across the landscape
5.6: Embedded powers across the landscape
5.7: Conclusion
5.8: Reference list
Part 3: Local voices in the landscape
Chapter 6: Spaces of environmental governance
6.1: Chapter abstract
6.2: Environmental governance is connected to place
6.3: The relational characteristics of environmental governance
6.4: The networked characteristics of environmental governance
6.5: The entangled characteristics of environmental governance
6.6: Conclusion
6.7: Reference list
Chapter 7: Spaces of environmental management
7.1: Chapter abstract
7.2: Project success is synonymous with community involvement
7.3: Varieties of participation
7.4: Varieties of environmental management
7.5: Conclusion
7.6: Reference list
Part 4: Knowledge networks across the landscape
Chapter 8: Politics of knowledge
8.1: Chapter abstract
8.2: The power of place-based knowledge
8.3: Local community knowledge encompasses diverse knowledge cultures
8.4: Local community knowledge determines the success of environmental management projects
8.5: Conclusion
8.6: Reference list
Chapter 9: Varieties of local knowledge
9.1: Chapter abstract
9.2: The potential of local community knowledge
9.3: Place-based characteristics of government knowledge
9.4: Knowledge cultures active in local environmental management and community development projects
9.5: Celebrating the limitations of local knowledge
9.6: The dangers of knowledge dichotomies
9.7: Conclusion
9.8: Reference list
Part 5: Strategies for cultural hybridity
Chapter 10: Practising cultural hybridity for the third space
10.1: Chapter abstract
10.2: Processes for an applied cultural hybridity
10.3: Practising an applied peoples{u2019} geography for cultural hybridity
10.3.1: Case study 1: principles for protecting and conserving threatened species habitat in Victoria
10.3.2: Case study 2: principles for managing fire in the southern Tanami, Northern Territory
10.4: Conceptualising processes for cultural hybridity
10.5: Creating spaces for cultural hybridity
10.6: Conclusion
10.7: Reference list
Chapter 11: Working together to better manage country
11.1: Chapter abstract
11.2: Conceptual strategies for cultural hybridity
11.3: Practical strategies for cultural hyrbridity
11.3.1: Imagining formal institutions for social action.-11.3.2: Imagining projects for social action
11.3.3: Imagining the self as an arena for social action.-11.4: Reference list
Glossary and Terms.