TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pascoe,Bruce
AU  - Leonard Gammage,William
AU  - Neale,Margo
TI  - Country: Future Fire, Future Farming
SN  - 9781760761554
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Australia
PB  - Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
N1  - Due to be published October 2021
N2  - What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians.  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
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