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“Waka Ŋurrkanhayŋu—Regenerating the Existence of Life”: Indigenous and Western Researchers Engaging in Two-Way Exchange to Resolve Our Existential Crises
Categories: Journal PapersHumanity is experiencing increasingly existential crises. While the crises are potentially apocalyptic, they also create transformative opportunities toward ways of being–knowing–doing that not only ensure our survival but thriving. Realizing these transformative opportunities requires the prevailing Western worldview remembering and embracing ancient Indigenous worldviews. One potent pathway for accomplishing this paradigm shift is authentically exchanging two-way with Indigenous peoples. To illuminate this…
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The Value of Sophisticated Indigenous Ways of Being-Knowing-Doing Towards Transforming Human Resource Development in Ways that Contribute to Organizations Thriving and Addressing Our Existential Crises
Categories: Journal PapersAcross the world we are experiencing existential crises that emerged from the compounding effects of the interactions of COVID, disasters, climate change, environmental destruction, poverty, food and water shortages, war, crime, domestic violence and substance abuse. Parallel, our individual and collective human resources have been steadily declining – we are getting physically and mentally sicker,…
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Restoring the transformative bridge: Remembering and regenerating our Western transformative ancient traditions to solve the riddle of our existential crisis
Categories: Journal PapersThe apocalyptic cultural transition threatening our existence represents a transformative opportunity. To facilitate realizing this opportunity, we synergized the knowledges of three transdisciplinary transformative scholar-practitioners. The ensuing composite story suggests the source of the crisis is spiritual and the consequence of millennia long domestication and colonization in the Western culture that started with Plato advancing…
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Facilitating Effective DRR Education and Human Survival: Intentionally Engaging the Transformative Education-Paradigm Shift Spiral
Categories: Journal PapersOver the last few decades, research has repeatedly shown that the education strategies used to develop the disaster risk reduction (DRR) capabilities and relationships required to reduce the risk of extreme natural events and facilitate the development of adaptive capacities have been ineffective. We propose that the ineffectiveness of current DRR education efforts derives from…
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Living in harmony with our environment: A paradigm shift
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Synergy of systems theory and symbolic interactionism: a passageway for non-Indigenous researchers that facilitates better understanding Indigenous worldviews and knowledges
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Facilitating Sustainable Disaster Risk Reduction in Indigenous Communities: Reviving Indigenous Worldviews, Knowledge and Practices through Two-Way Partnering
Categories: Journal PapersAbstract The Sendai Framework of Action 2015–2030 calls for holistic Indigenous disaster risk reduction (DRR) research. Responding to this call, we synergized a holistic philosophical framework (comprising ecological systems theory, symbolic interactionism, and intersectionality) and social constructionist grounded theory and ethnography within a critical Indigenous research paradigm as a methodology for exploring how diverse individual…
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Exploring adaptive capacity to arid heat in remote First Nations communities in Central Australia
Format: websiteCategories: Journal PapersThis study used yarning sessions with 30 participants from four remote First Nations communities in Central Australia to examine the impacts of extreme heat, highlighting how poor housing, energy insecurity, and limited cooling options increase health risks and the need for community-led climate adaptation strategies.
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Emergency Department Presentations During Dry and Humid Heatwaves: A Case-Crossover Study in the Northern Territory, Australia
Format: websiteCategories: Journal PapersThis research found that both dry-heat and humid heatwaves increase emergency department presentations in Australia’s Northern Territory, with visitors particularly affected during dry-heat events and Aboriginal people during humid heatwaves, highlighting the need for humidity-inclusive warning systems and targeted protections for high-risk groups.
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Associating geospatially assessed walkability with population health physical activity indicators from urban and regional settings: A case study from Tasmania, Australia
Format: websiteCategories: Journal PapersThis study found that higher neighborhood walkability is associated with increased physical activity, particularly in regional Tasmania, highlighting the potential of built environment design as a practical strategy to support healthier, more active communities.