Cleaning, protecting, or abating? making indigenous fire management "work" in northern Australia

Journal of Ethnobiology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 140-162

  Petty, Aaron M ^a   Dekoninck, Vanessa ^b   Orlove, Ben ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Independent Scholar   (United States)

^c Center for International Forestry Research   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon abatement; environmental policy; joint management; landscape anthropology; socialecological systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924738971     PISSN: 02780771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2993/0278-0771-35.1.140     Document Type: Article

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