Shields T, van Leeuwen S, Talbot L, Hunter B (2025). National Indigenous Environment Research Network (NIERN) Summary Report. Report to the National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Resilient Landscapes Hub, Western Australia.
Overview
Indigenous Australians are lobbying for environmental research to take a rights-based approach that: improves economic opportunities; confers greater authority over the stewardship of Country; delivers equity in managing Country; emboldens control to integrate knowledge systems; values and promotes culture; and recognises Indigenous self-determination. The National Indigenous Environment Research Network (NIERN) offers a solution which supports the rights-based approach driven by Indigenous Australians through the establishment of a community of practice guided by Indigenous researchers and Indigenous Knowledge holders. This project envisages NIERN as an Indigenous-led solution to the self-determination of Indigenous
environmental research priorities. By exploring the purpose and membership model that would support the network, and a business structure to sustain operations.
