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The water harvesting landscape of Budj Bim and Lake Condah : whither world heritage recognition

conference contribution
posted on 2011-01-01, 00:00 authored by David Jones
In July 2004 the Budj Bim National Heritage Landscape was inscribed onto the National Heritage List. The place accorded with the criterion of A. Events, Processes (in demonstrating a place of Indigenous-European colonization conflict), B. Rarity (in demonstrating the context, historical and philosophy of benevolence of Governments to Indigenous people), F. Creative or technical achievement (in demonstrating technical accomplishment in construction the system), and, I. Indigenous tradition (in demonstrating longevity and continuity of cultural practices). Such affords Budj Bim, that hosts a unique Indigenous water harvesting and aquaculture infrastructure system dating some 7,000-10,000 years within a country that the Gunditjmara have managed for some 20,000-50,000 years, national standing. Within the lands gazetted is a complex and multi-faceted system that would today be categorised as a major integrated landscape planning and catchment management scheme that includes demonstrable major site engineering, hydraulic engineering, and aquaculture and water management scientific evidence and process knowledge and application.

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Event

Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia International Conference : Architecture @ the Edge (2011 : Geelong, Vic.)

Pagination

131 - 142

Publisher

Deakin University, School of Architecture & Building

Location

Geelong, Vic.

Place of publication

Geelong, Vic.

Start date

2011-09-18

End date

2011-09-21

ISBN-13

9780958192552

Indigenous content

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Language

eng

Notes

Reproduced with the kind permission of the copyright owner.

Publication classification

E1 Full written paper - refereed

Copyright notice

2011, David Jones

Editor/Contributor(s)

H Elkadi, L Xu, J Coulson

Title of proceedings

Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia

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