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Fire Otherwise : Ethnobiology of Burning for a Changing World /

"Fire is a daunting human ecological challenge and a major subject in science and policy debates about global trends in land conversion, climate change, and human health. Persistent environmental orthodoxies reduce complex burning traditions to overly simplistic representations of environmental...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Welch, James R. (Editor ), Fowler, Cynthia, 1970- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Lifeways enhancing fire ecology : an introduction / Cynthia T. Fowler and James R. Welch
  • Anthropogenic fire history, ecology, and management in fire-prone landscapes : an intercontinental review / James R. Welch, Joyce K. Lecompte, Ramona J. Butz, Angela May Steward, and Jeremy Russell-Smith
  • Fire in the African Savanna : identifying challenges to traditional burning practices in Tanzania and Malawi / Ramona J. Butz
  • Fire management in Brazilian Savanna Wetlands : new insights from traditional swidden cultivation systems in the Jalapãúo Region (Tocantins) / Ludivine Eloy, Silvia Laine Borges, Isabel B. Schmidt, and Ana Carolina Sena Barradas
  • Fire use among swidden farmers in Central Amazonia : reflections on practice and conservation policies / Angela May Steward
  • Restoration, risk, and the (non)reintroduction of Coast Salish fire ecologies in Washington State / Joyce K. Lecompte
  • The critical role of firefighters' place-based environmental knowledge in responding to novel fire regimes in Hawaii / Lisa Gollin and Clay Trauernicht
  • Burning lands : fire and livelihoods in the Navosa Hill Region, Fiji Islands / Trevor King
  • Assessing causes and effects of survival emissions from global to local scales : agropastoral communities in the north Kodi subdistrict of Sumba Island, Indonesia / Cynthia T. Fowler.