Acknowledgement

This book was produced with a grant from CAUL and supported by Charles Darwin University, Engineers without Borders Australia, the University of Technology Sydney, University of Adelaide, Monash University and Australian National University.

Cover image provided by Lisa Roberts from LunarTime.net.au and permission given to use in this book with alterations. To reuse this image please contact the artist. This image was incorporated into the cover for the book, which was designed by Darcy Sorensen, an Academic and Research Librarian at Charles Darwin University.

The Blue spiral signifies the flows of Indigenous knowledges that come from lands and waterways. The Orange grid signifies colonial frameworks opening up to two-way learning and teaching through cultural arts and the scientific method. This initial icon was co-authored by Cat Kutay, Robyn Murphy and Lisa Roberts (2021-08-19).

Humans benefit from communities they interact with. Benefits for humans from human communities can be physical, emotional and financial. Humans also benefit from communities of other species from whom they get resources such as food, timber, fibre, medicines, and ecosystem services such as oxygen, water purification, waste dispersal and nutrient recycling.

Other organisms also benefit from communities they interact with, such as coral reefs, schools of fish, swarms of krill, pods of whales. Communities can be multi-species such as an ocean ecosystem or a rainforest with its myriad of interdependent organisms.