Articles by Melissa Nursey-Bray
- Profile
- Melissa Nursey-Bray is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Environment and Population at the University of Adelaide, and Director of the Research Cluster ACE (Adaptation, Community Environment). She explores how communities become involved in decision making, what factors affect their relationship with the environment, and how to support the development of community based environmental governance. Her current work focuses on community-based climate adaptation, particularly, Indigenous adaptation to climate change.
Environment, Featured, Green Agenda Quarterly Journal Spring 2021
Not passive victims: Indigenous Australians respond to climate change
This piece was originally published in Foreground. Climate change poses both direct and indirect threats to the socio-economic, institutional and environmental systems of the world’s Indigenous populations. Australia is no exception. Yet through the formation of political alliances and establishment of on-country initiatives Indigenous Australians have been leading the way in the development of climate adaptation responses. Firstly, there are a range... Read More