TY  - BOOK
AU  - Russell-Smith,Jeremy
AU  - Whitehead,Peter J.
AU  - Cooke,Peter
TI  - Culture, ecology, and economy of fire management in North Australian Savannas: rekindling the Wurrk tradition 
SN  - 9780643098299
AV  - QH197 .C85 2009eb
U1  - 634.9 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Collingwood, Vic.
PB  - CSIRO Pub.
KW  - Savanna ecology
KW  - Australia
KW  - Australia, Northern
KW  - Prescribed burning
KW  - Burning of land
KW  - Wilderness areas
KW  - Fire management
KW  - Écologie des savanes
KW  - Australie
KW  - Australie (Nord)
KW  - Brûlage dirigé
KW  - Écobuage
KW  - Réserves de la vie sauvage
KW  - Lutte contre les incendies
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Forestry
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Northern Australia
KW  - Environmental impact of disasters (Australia)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 392-394) and index; Cover; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Chapter 1 Challenges and opportunities for fire managementin fire-prone northern Australia; Chapter 2 Things fall apart: the end of an era of systematicIndigenous fire management; Chapter 3 Change and catastrophe: adaptation, re-adaptationand fire in the Alligator Rivers region; Chapter 4 Buffalo and tin, baki and Jesus: the creation of amodern wilderness; Chapter 5 The language of fire: seasonality, resources andlandscape burning on the Arnhem Land Plateau
N2  - This engaging volume explores the management of fire in one of the world's most flammable landscapes: Australia's tropical savannas, where on average 18% of the landscape is burned annually. Impacts have been particularly severe in the Arnhem Land Plateau, a centre of plant and animal diversity on Indigenous land. Culture, Ecology and Economy of Fire Management in North Australian Savannas documents a remarkable collaboration between Arnhem Land's traditional landowners and the scientific community to arrest a potentially catastrophic fire-driven decline in the natural and cultural assets of t
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