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Culture, ecology, and economy of fire management in North Australian Savannas : rekindling the Wurrk tradition /

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 dive...

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Други автори: Russell-Smith, Jeremy., Whitehead, Peter J., Cooke, Peter.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Pub., 2009.
Предмети:
Savanna ecology > Australia.
Savanna ecology > Australia, Northern.
Prescribed burning > Australia, Northern.
Burning of land > Australia, Northern.
Wilderness areas > Fire management > Australia, Northern.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Forestry.
Burning of land.
Prescribed burning.
Savanna ecology.
Wilderness areas > Fire management.
Australia.
Northern Australia.
Electronic books.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Culture, ecology, and economy of fire management in North Australian Savannas.
Съдържание:
  • 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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