Do burning practices contribute to caring for country? contemporary uses of fire for conservation purposes in indigenous Australia

Journal of Ethnobiology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 163-182

  Fache, Elodie ^a   Moizo, Bernard ^b  

^a Australian National University CREDO   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

burning practices; community based natural resource management; conservation; fire management regimes; indigenous Australia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924713187     PISSN: 02780771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2993/0278-0771-35.1.163     Document Type: Review

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