| Description |
1 online resource (x, 404 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 392-394) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Savanna ecology -- Australia.
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Savanna ecology. |
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Australia. |
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Savanna ecology -- Australia, Northern.
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Prescribed burning -- Australia, Northern.
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Prescribed burning. |
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Burning of land -- Australia, Northern.
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Burning of land. |
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Wilderness areas -- Fire management -- Australia, Northern.
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Wilderness areas -- Fire management. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Russell-Smith, Jeremy.
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Whitehead, Peter J.
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Cooke, Peter.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Culture, ecology, and economy of fire management in North Australian Savannas. Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Pub., 2009 9780643094024 (DLC) 2009675165 (OCoLC)496293200 |
| ISBN |
9780643098299 (electronic book) |
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0643098291 (electronic book) |
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1283155575 |
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9781283155571 |
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