Country : future fire, future farming / Bill Gammage & Bruce Pascoe ; introduction by Margot Neale.
Series: First knowledgesPublication details: Port Melbourne, VIC : Thames & Hudson Australia, 2021.Description: 211 pages : maps ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781760761554
- 1760761559
- Future fire, future farming
- Country
- 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 -- Australia -- History
- 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)
- 338.10994 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 338.109 GAM | Available | 063401 |
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.