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dc.contributor.editorBuettel, Jessie
dc.contributor.editorDavid, Bruno
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-03T05:32:12Z
dc.date.available2023-11-03T05:32:12Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/77209
dc.description.abstractAnthropogenic climate change has become a reality, and in Australia this means longer wildfire seasons with more intense fires across a wider area. The GunaiKurnai people of southeastern Victoria saw a large proportion of their Country decimated by the Gippsland Fires of ‘Black Summer’ (2019–2020), prompting questions about the management of Country and its heritage places and artefacts, and of the role that traditional (‘cultural’) burning could play. This volume, written at the request of the GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation (GKLaWAC), seeks to investigate these twin issues. Bringing together a multi-disciplinary team of Aboriginal Elders, archaeologists, environmental scientists, ecologists, historians and art historians, it considers the histories of GunaiKurnai and European settler burning-based landscape management practices, the impacts of fire on specific classes of cultural materials, and the broader impact of changing wildfire patterns on cultural sites in the landscape. This is a truly collaborative venture that sees GunaiKurnai and academic expertise brought to bear in the service of common and pressing issues.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.otherNature
dc.subject.otherEnvironmental Conservation & Protection
dc.subject.otherSocial Science
dc.subject.otherArchaeology
dc.subject.otherScience
dc.subject.otherGlobal Warming & Climate Change
dc.titleFires in GunaiKurnai Country
dc.title.alternativeLandscape Fires and their Impacts on Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Places and Artefacts in Southeastern Australia
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedByArchaeopress Publishing
oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9781803274812
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.imprintArchaeopress Publishing Ltd
oapen.identifierhttps://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/1bdf8fa9-43e6-4d09-913e-d2d8ec51de9c


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