Adaptation pathways and opportunities for Indigenous peoples

[Extract] The culture, history and geography of Indigenous peoples in the Wet Tropics NRM cluster region underpin both high resilience and high vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. This chapter addresses the issues and options for generating adaptation pathways and opportunities that take account of this context, with some Case Examples (Boxes 6.1–6.4) from the Wet Tropics cluster region. We discuss how to support Indigenous knowledge and culture in adaptation, and the conditions, methods and tools that enable these to be integrated into policy, land-use and land management decisions. We synthesise findings about how to simultaneously build desirable resilience and reduce vulnerability by addressing barriers to adaptation, and monitor outcomes. We conclude with some international and Australian Case Examples