Country : future fire, future farming / Bill Gammage & Bruce Pascoe ; edited by Margo Neale
- Bib ID:
- 8614097
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Gammage, Bill, 1942-, author
- Description:
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- Port Melbourne, Victoria : Thames & Hudson Australia, 2021
- ©2021
- 211 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781760761554 (paperback)
- Series:
- First knowledges.
- Summary:
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For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmental and economic solutions. Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe demonstrate how Aboriginal people cultivated the land through manipulation of water flows, vegetation and firestick practice. Not solely hunters and gatherers, the First Australians also farmed and stored food. They employed complex seasonal fire programs that protected Country and animals alike. In doing so, they avoided the killer fires that we fear today. Country: Future Fire, Future Farming highlights the consequences of ignoring this deep history and living in unsustainable ways. It details the remarkable agricultural and land-care techniques of First Nations peoples and shows how such practices are needed now more than ever.
- Notes:
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- Colour illustrations on endpapers.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands people are advised that this book contains the names of people who have passed away. The stories in this book are shared with the permission of the original storytellers.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-[202]) and index.
- First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs -- History
- Traditional farming -- Australia
- Agricultural ecology -- Australia
- Sustainable agriculture -- Australia
- Aboriginal Australians -- Agriculture
- Aboriginal Australians -- Fire use
- Fire ecology -- Australia
- Fire management -- Australia
- Prescribed burning -- Australia
- Land use, Rural -- Australia -- History
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
- Also Titled:
- Future fire, future farming
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2021
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