| Record Number |
22344 |
| ISBN |
9781760761554 |
| 1760761559 |
| Item Number |
20369966 |
| Location |
305.89 FIR |
| Author |
Gammage, Bill, (author). |
| Title |
Country : future fire, future farming / Bill Gammage & Bruce Pascoe ; [introduction by Margot Neale]. |
| Portion of title |
Future fire, future farming |
| Spine title |
Country |
| Published |
Port Melbourne, Vic. : Thames & Hudson/National Museum Australia, 2021. |
| Collation |
224 pages : maps ; 20 cm. |
| Content types |
still image |
| cartographic image |
| text |
| Carrier type |
volume |
| online resource |
| Series |
First Knowledges |
| ; 3 |
| General Note |
Colour illustrations on endpapers. |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents Note |
1. Personal perspectives -- 2. Land care -- 3. Cultivating country -- 4. Future farming -- 5. Country -- 6. An ancient alliance -- 7. Holding the spark: 1788 Fire notes -- 8. Babes in the wood -- 9. Poor fella my country -- 10. How we might love mother Earth more. |
| Summary Note |
"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." - Back cover. |
| Subject |
Agricultural ecology |
| Fire management |
| Land use, Rural |
| Sustainable agriculture |
| Traditional farming |
| Environment - Land management |
| Economic sectors - Agriculture and horticulture |
| Environment - Conservation - Ecologically sustainable development |
| Environment - Land management - Fire |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Agriculture |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure |
| Wildfires -- Prevention and control -- Australia |
| Fire ecology -- Australia |
| Land use -- Australia |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Agriculture |
| Traditional farming -- Australia |
| Agricultural ecology -- Australia |
| Sustainable agriculture -- Australia |
| Land use, Rural -- Australia -- History |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs -- History |
| Fire management -- Australia |
| Added Name |
Pascoe, Bruce,1947-, (author). |
| Neale, Margo, (author of introduction, etc). |
