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ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS AND CASE STUDIES: Cultural Heritage, Community Engagement, and Environmental Impact Assessment in Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2016

Ian Lilley
Ian Lilley*
Affiliation:
Professor, ATSIS Unit, University of Queensland, Australia
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Address correspondence to: Ian Lilley, Professor, ATSIS Unit, University of Queensland 4072, Australia; (phone) 617 3365 7051; (e-mail) i.lilley@uq.edu.au.
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Abstract

This brief article sketches the current situation regarding cultural heritage, community engagement, and environmental impact assessment in Australia. The country is by no means perfect when it comes to heritage management in the impact-assessment process. Yet, practitioners have evolved a set of common understandings concerning social value and community engagement that characteristically (though, of course, not inevitably) produce mutually-acceptable outcomes for all stakeholders. These understandings rest largely on the internationally-renowned “Burra Charter,” which applies to all cultural heritage in Australia, but are given added legal weight with regard to Indigenous heritage by Native Title legislation giving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people a significant say in land use. The centrality of social value and community engagement is clear in the codes of ethics of professional organizations managing heritage in impact assessment, such as the Australian Archaeological Association and the Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists Inc.

Environmental Practice 18: 205–208 (2016)

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Environmental Practice , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , September 2016 , pp. 205 - 208
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© National Association of Environmental Professionals 2016 

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