Land managers in Cape York Peninsula, far northeast Australia, hold different ideas around the causes of climate variability. Understandings of changes in climate are underpinned by particular environmental knowledges, values, and practices. These understandings are articulated in the context of the wet season, when land managers must adapt to the changing duration and intensity of the rainfall each year. The wet and dry seasons function as cyclical agents that precipitate different modes of living and working among different groups of people in Cape York. Where settler-descended cattle graziers tend to frame climate variability as ‘natural cycles’, Aboriginal rangers link climate variability to anthropogenic climate change. The tendency among Aboriginal rangers to link these changes to anthropogenic climate change is a result of the interpenetration of a Western scientific land management model with an Aboriginal land management model in the formal co-management of protected areas. From this context, a ‘spatial vernacular’ of interculturally produced climate-related knowledge emerges. The explanatory models different land managers draw on to understand climate variation in relation to seasonal water, changes to the wet season, and the increased frequency of extreme weather events are linked to their livelihoods, lifeways, and the forms of environmental knowledge they value.

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潮湿：昆士兰州约克角半岛的季节变化、气候变化和自然循环

澳大利亚东北部约克角半岛的土地管理者对气候变化的原因持有不同的看法。对气候变化的理解是以特定的环境知识、价值观和实践为基础的。这些理解是在雨季的背景下阐明的，此时土地管理者必须适应每年降雨持续时间和强度的变化。雨季和旱季作为周期性因素，促成了约克角不同群体的不同生活和工作方式。定居者后裔的放牧者倾向于将气候变化视为“自然循环”，而原住民护林员则将气候变化与人为气候变化联系起来。原住民护林员倾向于将这些变化与人为气候变化联系起来，这是西方科学土地管理模式与原住民土地管理模式在保护区正式共同管理中相互渗透的结果。在这种背景下，跨文化产生的气候相关知识的“空间白话”出现了。不同土地管理者用来了解与季节性水有关的气候变化、雨季变化以及极端天气事件频率增加的解释模型与他们的生计、生活方式以及他们所重视的环境知识的形式有关。