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" Culture, ecology, and economy of fire management in North Australian Savannas : "
Jeremy Russell-Smith, Peter Whitehead, Peter Cooke.
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971836
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b726206
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Culture, ecology, and economy of fire management in North Australian Savannas : : rekindling the Wurrk tradition /\ Jeremy Russell-Smith, Peter Whitehead, Peter Cooke.
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Collingwood, Vic. :: CSIRO Pub.,, 2009.
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1 online resource (x, 404 pages) :: illustrations (some color), maps
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0643098291
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: 1283155575
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: 9781283155571
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0643094024
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9780643094024
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 392-394) and index.
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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.
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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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Burning of land-- Australia, Northern.
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Prescribed burning-- Australia, Northern.
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Savanna ecology-- Australia, Northern.
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Savanna ecology-- Australia.
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Wilderness areas-- Fire management-- Australia, Northern.
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Burning of land.
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Prescribed burning.
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Savanna ecology.
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TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING-- Agriculture-- Forestry.
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Wilderness areas-- Fire management.
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Australia.
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Northern Australia.
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634.9
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QH197.C85 2009eb
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Cooke, Peter.
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Russell-Smith, Jeremy.
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Whitehead, Peter J.
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