Country : future fire, future farming /
Gammage, Bill,
Country : future fire, future farming / Future fire, future farming Country Bill Gammage & Bruce Pascoe ; introduction by Margot Neale. - Port Melbourne, VIC : Thames & Hudson Australia, 2021. - 211 pages : maps ; 20 cm. - First knowledges .
Colour illustrations on endpapers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781760761554 1760761559
20369966
Aboriginal Australians--Social life and customs--History.
Traditional farming--Australia.
Agricultural ecology--Australia.
Sustainable agriculture--Australia.
Aboriginal Australians--Agriculture.
Fire management--Australia.
Land use, Rural--History.--Australia
Aboriginal Australians--Agriculture.
Aboriginal Australians--Social life and customs.
Agricultural ecology.
Fire management.
Land use, Rural.
Sustainable agriculture.
Traditional farming.
Australia.
Management of land & natural resources (Australia) Australian Aboriginal studies (Australia) All Australian Indigenous Material (Australia)
History.
338.10994
Country : future fire, future farming / Future fire, future farming Country Bill Gammage & Bruce Pascoe ; introduction by Margot Neale. - Port Melbourne, VIC : Thames & Hudson Australia, 2021. - 211 pages : maps ; 20 cm. - First knowledges .
Colour illustrations on endpapers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781760761554 1760761559
20369966
Aboriginal Australians--Social life and customs--History.
Traditional farming--Australia.
Agricultural ecology--Australia.
Sustainable agriculture--Australia.
Aboriginal Australians--Agriculture.
Fire management--Australia.
Land use, Rural--History.--Australia
Aboriginal Australians--Agriculture.
Aboriginal Australians--Social life and customs.
Agricultural ecology.
Fire management.
Land use, Rural.
Sustainable agriculture.
Traditional farming.
Australia.
Management of land & natural resources (Australia) Australian Aboriginal studies (Australia) All Australian Indigenous Material (Australia)
History.
338.10994
