Geoethics Medal 2024 awarded to Prof. Anne (Wagaba) Poelina!
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Prof. Anne (Wagaba) Poelina, University of Notre Dame (Western Australia), has been awarded the Geoethics Medal 2024.
This is the statement of achievements:
Professor Anne Poelina is one of Australia’s most respected Indigenous leaders. Over the past 30 years, she has employed a powerful combination of public engagements, peer-reviewed academic papers, podcasts, community meetings, poetry, storytelling and filmmaking to share the lived experiences of Indigenous people and expand appreciation of the value of Indigenous knowledge for the challenges facing our world. She has instigated and managed many cultural development projects in remote Aboriginal communities to preserve and promote Indigenous culture and country, including restoring traditional languages and developing Indigenous dictionaries. Her collaborative, cooperative ethos has resulted in her initiating various ‘two-way science’ projects combining the best non-Indigenous and Indigenous knowledge to restore and preserve ecosystems and people’s well-being. As an Indigenous leader, Poelina regularly contributes to national and global Think Tanks and was a signatory to the 2010 Redstone Statement which she helped draft at the First International Summit on Indigenous Environmental Philosophy. She consistently secures academic grants and community investments in support of whole-of-system sustainability projects. As lead researcher at the Nulungu Institute, she oversees all research activities, guides and supports data gathering and analysis, and oversees all project reporting. At the international advocacy level, her appearances and many collaborative publications have contributed to expanding networks and global thinking about the value of Indigenous knowledge in meeting the challenges of our time. Her Heal Country, Health Climate advocacy is building investment and partnerships for entrepreneurial ‘new economy’ opportunities for Indigenous people with green collar jobs in science, culture, heritage and conservation economies.
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